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Textile fragment with circle and pseudo-inscription
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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, yellow, and brown silk; openwork in yellow silk; with a hem in flax
- Dimensions
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10 x 8.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.2 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm min. (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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.275
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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. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A band is completely filled with open work embroidered with three-sided stitches in yellow (natural) silk; along either side is a blue border worked in slanted counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows. The band contains a blue circle with a blue, yellow and brown pseudo-inscription band at the centre. Stem stitch is used to define the outlines of the circle and borders.
Along one of the blue borders is a narrow hem.
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