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An unpublished catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Islamic embroideries from Egyptologist Percy Newberry, by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis.
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Textile fragment with bands of leaves and lozenges
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Literature notes
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. -
Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
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mid-13th century - early 14th century
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red, blue, and yellow silk
- Dimensions
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51 x 41 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.340
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Further reading
Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001), no. 37 on p. 55, p. 9, illus. p. 55
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. vol. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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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
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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