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Sampler fragment with bands, triangles, and hexagons
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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 undyed and light-blue flax, and dark-blue and red silk
- Dimensions
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14.5 x 37.5 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
- EA1984.485
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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, vol. iv p. 83, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A sampler with bands, triangles, and hexagons, several of them containing flowers, and one with a continuous vine made up from S-shapes.
The sampler not only records several patterns, but also different stitches. The bands are stitched in close counted herringbone, the triangles in counted straight stitch worked into a honeycomb pattern, and there are patches of slanted counted stitch. Most of it is of good quality, but the stitching with undyed flax thread is very crudely done.
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