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Textile fragment with linked and interlaced diamond-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 cotton and pink, yellow, and dark-blue silk; with a hem in flax
- Dimensions
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12 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.210
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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 blue bands at right angles to each other, with a design of linked, interlaced diamonds. In addition there are small clusters of diamonds embroidered blue, dark blue, yellow, and pink.
There is a selvedge and at right angles to it a stitched hem. The blue bands and the small blue diamonds are embroidered with cotton thread, the pink, yellow, and dark blue diamonds are of silk thread.
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