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Textile fragment with triangular peaks, trefoils, and hearts
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with blue and red silk
- Dimensions
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28.5 x 5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.04 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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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.68
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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 with blue outlines, one of which is straight, the other has triangular peaks, each with a trefoil finial. Small red heart shapes with red trefoils fill the triangles, and the same shapes of hearts and trefoil, but stitched in blue, are placed onto small blue cartouches which are set between the triangular peaks. There is the beginning of a further design, of small shapes alternatingly red and blue, set apart by a single red line.
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