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Textile fragment with three bands of hexagons
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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 undyed and blue silk; pulled-thread openwork, and needle-woven openwork with overcast stitching; with a rolled hem in flax
- Dimensions
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63 x 13 cm (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
- EA1984.442
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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 narrow parallel bands are filled with hexagons containing S-shaped pulled work with wrapping stitches in diagonal rows, drawn-thread work with overcast stitch, and swastika worked in satin stitch, all embroidered with undyed silk. Set between the hexagons are small blue triangles in fine darning stitch worked over and under one thread.
There is a rolled hem at one narrow end. The width of the bands is 1 cm each, and they are spaced out at a distance of 3.3 cm.
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