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Textile fragment with tendril and leaves

  • Details

    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    Anatolia (probable place of creation)
    Syria (possible place of creation)
    Date
    Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
    Material and technique
    probably linen, embroidered with pink silk; cotton backing
    Dimensions
    19.5 x 4 cm (length x width)
    ground fabric, along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm max. (thread count)
    backing, along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm min. (thread count)
    ground fabric 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
    backing 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
    additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
    Material index
    silk,
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1984.265
  • 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

    • 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

    An continuous tendril is set into a band and repeated mirror-symmetrically. Small paired leaves emerge from the vine.

    The band is embroidered over two layers of cloth; the finer one on top seems to be linen, the lower one cotton. The shape of the band suggests that it was used as a collar or sleeve.
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