Textile fragment with bands of curving lines and floral trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of curving lines and floral trefoils
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Associated place
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Date
14th century (1301 - 1400) -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with blue, brown, and undyed silk; additional cloth strip, probably linen; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.7 x 17.3 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.
EA1993.114
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Catalogue text
Two similar bands with double curving lines supporting trefoils; both bands have narrow S borders. The curves and trefoils are covered with yellow, the background with brown slanted counted filling stitches worked in diagonal rows; the outlines are in blue split stitch.
An additional strip of cloth has been sewn between the bands.
The textile has a radiocarbon result of 1301 AD +/- 39.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. 75 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 75
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