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Textile fragment with medallions and ornamental inscription
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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, with some tracing visible, embroidered with red silk
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 6 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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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.
- EA1984.55
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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
Small medallions are set into a band, each containing an ornamental inscription. The space between the medallions was filled with further ornamental designs, possibly plant tendrils, but they are too fragmentary to be visible.
Much of the stitching has disintegrated, and there are remains of tracing lines. Threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches.
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