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Textile fragment with crescents and chequers
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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 thread, possibly cotton
- Dimensions
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18 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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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.
- EA1984.47
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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 single band of crescents is set between two bands of checker design, both embroidered in running stitch, framed by narrow bands of herringbone embroidery; there is an additional checker band framed by single lines of herringbone stitch.
Two now undecorated bands apparently formerly had crescent shapes embroidered, as the prick marks remain.
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