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 vine or arabesque
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- two pieces of linen, embroidered with red and remains of blue silk; joined with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.57
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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
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A band of continuous vine or arabesque, filled in with red couching stitch; threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches. There are the remains of a blue outline, possibly worked in stem stitch.
Two fragments of the same design have been sewn together border to border. The sewing is quite crude and was possibly done recently as a repair. The design, stitch technique and colour, as well as ground fabric analysis are very similar to EA1984.56; both fragments were probably part of the same fabric.
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