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Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and chevrons
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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, woven with double flax picks near edge and possibly silk warp at selvedge, and embroidered with brown silk
- Dimensions
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17 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.6 cm (width)
two flax pick section 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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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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.
- EA1984.338
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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 narrow band with S-shapes alternating with rosettes against a background of brown chevrons. There are fragmentary traces of a second band parallel to this one.
The width of the band is 1.6 cm. There are traces of a selvedge at right angles to the band; the warp at the selvedge is very fine and may be silk. 2 mm from the edge it changes to flax set up with two picks, for a width of 1 cm, in order to strengthen the selvedge.
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