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Sampler fragment with diamond-shapes and lozenges
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, embroidered with blue flax; remains of blue and white checked fabric, probably woven from silk and blue flax threads; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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24 x 18 cm (length x width)
11 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.
- EA1984.503
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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
Sampler fragment with three bands of cross stitch, and one band embroidered in patern darning running stitch, with diamonds and half-diamonds, lozenges and two stylized flowers. There is also the beginning of two designs worked in double running stitch, some of it in two shades of blue.
In one corner of the textile are the small remains of a blue and white checkered fabric, probably woven from flax (blue) and silk (natural). There are also traces of sewing stitches.
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