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Textile fragment with linked medallions

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    • Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles

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  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    A narrow band of linked medallions containing dense scrolling in a natural colour against a blue, green, and brown ground, with pink outlines. In addition there is a very narrow border on one side of the band, with a running scroll of s-shapes on a green ground.

    The couching is single thread. The outline and scrolling is embroidered in stem stitch with ?flax thread.

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