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Textile fragment with band framed by triangles
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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 blue and white silk; pulled-thread openwork
- Dimensions
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9.5 x 10 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 3 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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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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.
- EA1984.432
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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
A band contains a square with a spiral inside, framed by triangles. These are mostly filled with very finely stitched darning, worked over one thread, and partly outlined in white satin stitch. Pulled work with wrapping stitches worked in diagonal rows provides the outlines, and there is some additional pulled work with wrapping stitch in horizontal rows.
A selvedge. The band is 3 cm wide. Parallel to it are prick marks remaining from further embroidery that has disintegrated.
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