Textile fragment with grid of stripes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of stripes
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 14th - 15th century (1301 - 1500) -
Material and technique
silk, partly dyed brown, and woven
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 6.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 44 / 30 threads/cm (thread count)
0.01 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.
EA1988.52
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Catalogue text
A woven silk textile with a plaid design, brown with a grid of beige stripes.
The original accession card dates the fragment to possibly the fourteenth/fifteenth century.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. iii, vol. i
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