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Textile fragment with interlace and diamond-shapes

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt by Marianne Ellis

    Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt

    This detail is both a record and a practice piece: the embroiderer has made a mistake on one of the three slightly different crimson patterns and lost the twisted ribbon effect. He or she then broke off the sequence completely and restarted. The three narrow bands show the way the designers of the Mamluk period turned a guilloche pattern, dating back into antiquity, into a geometric one and then developed two more variations on the theme. The seemingly endless number of different geometric patterns worked on Mamluk embroidery can only be described as amazing.
  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    One long band of red interlacing has two short bands attached at right angles at either end, also filled with interlacing. The interlace design changes slightly in the long band. The band is also interrupted by a dark blue embroidered rectangle, filled with diamonds and comb shapes, and with a narrow blue border of S-shapes.

    The red bands are 1.4 cm wide and 34 cm and twice 2.5 cm long. The dark blue rectangle has a length of 9.5 cm and width of 4.5 cm. There is a selvedge, with warp threads of silk to a width of 0.8 cm.

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