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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

An unpublished catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Islamic embroideries from Egyptologist Percy Newberry, by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis.

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

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Textile fragment with bands of leaves and lozenges

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  • Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt by Marianne Ellis

    Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt

    This detail shows the same counterchange pattern as those on Nos.35 [EA1984.502] and 36 [EA1993.152]. However here the positive image is coloured alternately with red and blue silk. Along the edges of the band there are small crenellated borders worked in close counted herringbone and cross stitches.
  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    Four bands, of which two are embroidered with a row of red and blue separate tendrils and leaves, while the other two are filled with a line of blue and yellow lozenges, three of one colour placed diagonally, and linked to the next group of three in the other colour.

    One of the red and blue bands is placed parallel to the selvedge, the other three are right angles to it.
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