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Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and S-shapes
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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 silk; possibly with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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14.5 x 10.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 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.
- EA1984.296
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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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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two parallel rectangles are filled with diamonds and s-shapes, as in fragment EA1984.294. Both rectangles have small triangular borders along their longer sides, again as in EA1984.294.
The fragment may have a selvedge on either long side, possibly with remains of flax sewing fibre. It is heavily stained yellow. In all respects of design and technical construction the fragment is identical to EA1984.294, and it is likely that both were part of the same textile.
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