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Textile fragment with trefoil scroll
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- leather, with traces of gilding, and leather appliqué; joined with stitching in blue flax; paper backing
- Dimensions
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8.5 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.359
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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
Leather strips are cut out into a trefoil scroll and are sewn onto a gilded ground.
Most of the appliqué leather strips have disappeared, although the design can still be seen through the remaining stitching. Where the appliqué remains it is attached with flax thread.
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