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Textile fragment with stepped diamond-shapes, possibly from a money pouch
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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 brown and blue silk; with a seam in flax
- Dimensions
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7.5 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.549
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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
A narrow band with a single line of stepped diamonds linked by small crosses, embroidered in brown. The band has a line of blue embroidery as a border, probably stitched in herringbone.
The band is 1.3 cm wide. At right angles to it is a seam which links the two sides into a tubular shape. The fragment may have been part of a money pouch.
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