Roundel textile fragment with interlace
Details
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Title
Roundel textile fragment with interlace
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
turquoise silk, possibly twill woven, and embroidered with brown and yellow thread, possibly silk; linen backing
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Object type
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Dimensions
7.5 x 7.5 cm (length x width)
ground fabric, along length/width 26 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
backing, along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
backing 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1984.99
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Catalogue text
A knotted interlace with yellow outlines and a brown and yellow central line is arranged to form two interlocking quatrefoils.
The embroidery is apparently done on a turquoise silk fabric woven in twill, with a linen backing. The embroidery is very finely executed.In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, vol. ii, vol. i
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