Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Textile fragment with bands of curving lines and floral trefoils

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    • currently in research collection

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

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    Two similar bands with double curving lines supporting trefoils; both bands have narrow S borders. The curves and trefoils are covered with yellow, the background with brown slanted counted filling stitches worked in diagonal rows; the outlines are in blue split stitch.

    An additional strip of cloth has been sewn between the bands.
    The textile has a radiocarbon result of 1301 AD +/- 39.

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