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Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, triangles, and flowers
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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; linen backing; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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12.5 x 9.5 cm max. (length x width)
backing, along length/width 34 / 34 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric, along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 11.5 x 4.5 cm (length x width)
backing 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 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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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.
- EA1984.349
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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 band made up from small diamonds set into larger linked diamonds; triangles are placed between the latter. The band has a border of stylized flowers.
The band is sewn to a ground fabric which is of finer weave; the technical data refers to this first, and to the embroidered band secondly. The band is 11.5 cm long and 4.5 cm wide.
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