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Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes, hexagonal cartouches, and quatrefoils
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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 dark-blue and pink silk
- Dimensions
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44.5 x 11 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1.2 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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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.
- EA1984.320
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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
Four narrow bands filled with blue diamonds alternating with hexagonal cartouches with blue borders and containing light pink quatrefoils.
The textile has a selvedge, and two of the bands run parallel to the long selvedge side. The other two bands are set at right angles at either end. The width of the bands is 1.2 cm.
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