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Textile fragment with large hexagonal diamond-shape
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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 coloured silk; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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23 x 13 cm max. (warp x weft)
23 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
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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.
- EA1984.602
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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 large hexagonal diamond with a blue border is filled with a four-petalled flower outlined in blue against a purple background, all worked in slanted filling stitch. The design has a fine white outline, embroidered in stem stitch. In addition there are three stepped triangles in one corner of the fragment, embroidered in close counted herringbone stitch.
The fabric has a selvedge, and a single thread of sewing fibre.
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