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Textile fragment with interlacing quatrefoils and trefoils
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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 pink and dark-blue silk, and yellow metal thread; additional piece of linen; joined with a flat seam in flax; with a hem in flax
- Dimensions
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26.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 27 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.01 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.107
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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
A wide band of very fine interlacing, made up from pink bands forming quatrefoils and trefoils, with the background covered with a stipple effect, created by dark blue embroidery, of a single couched thread.
A small fragment of plain tabby linen is sewn on with a flat seam. The band is hemmed at one narrow end. The silk core of metal threads (silver) remain, with evidence of couching.
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