Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Textile fragment with bands of interlocking diamond-shapes

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    Three parallel bands of identical design, but a switch in colour. The two outer bands black diamonds and diagonal lines, while the centre band has black linked diamonds and the identical narrow bands, but embroidered with red details.

    A flat (run-and-fell) seam is at right angles to a tacked hem.

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