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Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes and S-shapes
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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 dark-blue, red, and yellow silk; with a hem in blue flax
- Dimensions
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8.5 x 4.5 cm (length x width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.348
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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. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Fragment of two bands, one with a diamond linked to a large S-shape, both with a border of small hooks, the other with an ?interlace knot. There also is a border of fine sawtooth lines.
Along the border is a hem sewn with blue flax thread, as well as the remains of blanket stitching, as in EA1984.344.
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