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Textile fragment with three cartouches
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with light-blue, dark-blue, and yellow silk; remains of pulled-thread openwork
- Dimensions
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17 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 34 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.434
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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. iii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Three diagonally placed cartouches, each containing a square with an S-shape spiral; two small triangles. These designs are embroidered in blue darning stitch worked over one thread. There is evidence for pulled work, but the yellow wrapping stitches worked in horizontal rows have virtually all disappeared. Dark blue double running embroidery has also mostly disintegrated; its design can only be made out from the remaining prick marks.
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