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Textile fragment with band of decoration
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
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probably 11th century (1001 - 1100)
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171)
- Material and technique
- linen, plain woven and tapestry woven with gold thread, flax, and coloured silk; with a run-and-fell seam in flax
- Dimensions
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11 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 37 / 31 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 5 cm (width)
ground fabric .02 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,processed material › metal › gold,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,covered › metallized › gilded
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1988.64
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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
Remains of a tapestry band woven into a linen fabric. The tapestry is purple, green, red and brown silk with gold thread, as well as fine flax thread. There is a very small medallion containing an animal, possibly a rabbit with a long tail, woven in white against a purple ground.
There is a run-and-fell seam at right angle to the tapestry band. The band is 5 cm wide. It is too deteriorated to make out more of the design, but apparently the textile was of very high quality. It is likely to be of 11th century date.
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