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 band of stars
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with brown, blue, and yellow silk; pulled-thread openwork
- Dimensions
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18 x 7.3 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 3.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 cm min. (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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.472
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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. 56 on p. 84, p. 87, illus. p. 85
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
A band with blue eight-pointed stars, each containing a four-armed spiral, and a hexagon with small blue S-shapes and a single yellow S-shape. This and the outlines of the stars are embroidered in yellow satin stitch, the background is embroidered in brown pattern darning running stitch. The interior of the stars is done in very fine blue darning stitch, while the hexagon was filled with pulled work with wrapping stitch in diagonal rows.
The band is 3.5 cm wide. The embroidery is extremely fine, and the pulled work has partly disintegrated.
The textile has been radiocarbon dated to 1480 +/- 40.
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