Textile fragment from a garment with band of stylized flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a garment with band of stylized flowers
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
cotton, dyed blue, and embroidered with red and green silk; with a seam
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
EA1993.337
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Catalogue text
A double band with the repeating pattern of a stylized flower with three petals.
Part of the same garment as EA1993.336. Between the two rows of flowers runs a seam which is covered by a line of long-armed cross stitch in red silk.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, p. 298 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 297, vol. iv p. 298
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