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Textile fragment with linked medallions and birds
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Description
This small tapestry-woven fragment reveals the degree of continuity between the Coptic and Fatamid textile production in Egypt. Stylized scrolling motifs in alternating colours depict lobed palmettes and pairs of facing birds, a motif often used on Fatimid textiles as well as other media.
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Material and technique
- linen, plain woven and tapestry woven with white flax and coloured silk
- Dimensions
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14.5 x 8.5 cm (length x width)
tabby woven section, along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
0.05 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.
- EA1988.63
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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. iii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A tapestry band is woven in rust red, green, yellow, and blue silk and white flax, with linked medallions containing pairs of birds that face each other. The medallions are in white outlines and filled with red, green, and blue.
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