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Textile fragment with linked squares and quatrefoil rosette
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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 silk
- Dimensions
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29 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 7.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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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.
- EA1984.540
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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
A wide band is divided into rectangles; two of these are filled with two versions of linked squares, one with a single quatrefoil rosette, the other with a four-legged spiral. The two remaining rectangles have five diagonal lines, each with a single line of crosses. Along the border is a ?stylized inscription. Most of the embroidery is worked in stepped double running stitch.
The band is 7.5 cm wide.
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