Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt
A selection of 10th to 16th century embroideries from the Newberry collection at the Ashmolean by Marianne Ellis (published Oxford, 2001).
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Textile fragment with two peacocks
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Literature notes
The detail shows how threaded outlines were used to define the shapes of these comic little peacocks worked in pattern darning over just two threads of the ground fabric. -
Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with blue silk
- Dimensions
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ground fabric 15.5 x 7.8 cm (height x width)
ground fabric 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.66
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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. 25 on p. 41, illus. p. 41
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. p. 27 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 27
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
The detail shows how threaded outlines were used to define the shapes of these comic little peacocks worked in pattern darning over just two threads of the ground fabric. -
The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two birds are both facing to the right.
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