Room 5 | Textiles gallery
Explore the beauty and variety of Eastern Art objects on display in the Textiles gallery.
Galleries : 97 objects
Roundel textile fragment with blazon
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with brown, yellow, and pale-green silk
- Dimensions
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7 x 6.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 30 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.98
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. vol. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Galleries
Publications online
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A blazon is completely filled by a crescent with brown and yellow outline; the crescent and open space within the blazon contain small, fine tendrils embroidered in yellow, brown and green and ending in brown and green leaves. At the zenith of the crescent is a green trefoil.
The embroidery stitching has been done over two layers of fabric.
Notice
Objects may have since been removed or replaced from a gallery. Click into an individual object record to confirm whether or not an object is currently on display. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis, so contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular Eastern Art object.
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