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Textile fragment from the neck opening of a garment
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- silk, partly dyed blue and red, and embroidered with red, yellow, and blue silk and silver thread; linen lining; with overcast stitching in silk
- Dimensions
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38 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric (silk), along length/width 32 / 32 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (linen), along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (silk) 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric (linen) 0.05 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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dyed,assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1988.25
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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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Publications online
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Border of the neck opening of a garment, with a wide band of couched silver thread and a floral border. At the base of the band a long, ornate double cross is added, also in silver thread couching. There are additional silver thread circles with blue embroidery centres. Some outlines are embroidered in red stem stitch, and there is silk thread overcast stitching at the neck opening.
The fragment has a surface of silk, with red and blue longitudinal stripes, and a flax backing. Threadcount and diameter refer first to the silk, secondly to the flax.
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