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Textile fragment from a garment with linked diamond-shapes and double hearts
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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, dyed blue, and embroidered with red, green, and dark-brown silk and metal thread; with a run-and-fell seam in flax
- Dimensions
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30.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.336
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. p. 297 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 298, illus. vol. iv p. 297
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A band of linked diamonds with central double-heart motifs and borders of small linked diamonds; a truncated diamond-shaped motif composed of double diamonds and ?fishes. In addition there is a single stylized plant with a three-petalled flower.
The straight stitches are arranged in chevron shapes and geometric (Florentine) pattern. The fragment may be the shoulder band and beginning of the sleeve of a garment. A line of long-armed cross stitch in red covers a run-and-fell seam, and the curved neckline is whipped with red and yellow silk.
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