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

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Textile fragment with S-shapes and diamond-shape borders

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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

    Four bands provide the borders to a rectangular cloth. The design of all four bands is made up of identical linked S-shapes and diamonds, but the colour changes. Two bands are embroidered with brown pattern darning running stitch with a fine border in blue stem stitch, while the other two reverse the colour.

    There is a selvedge along one side, and rolled hems whipped with flax thread along the other three.

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