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Textile fragment with lions
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- late 13th century
- Associated people
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probably Sultan Baibars I (ruled 1260 - 1277) (heraldry on object)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red and blue silk; with remains of flax sewing thread
- Dimensions
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12.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
- EA1984.61
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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
As in EA1984.60, small blue lions are set into hexagonal fields created by linked lozenges. In this fragment there are three lions. It was probably part of the same original fabric as EA1984.60.
There are remains of sewing thread at the top, and as the previous textile, the fragment has the shape of a small pocket or lappet. Laid threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches. There are remains of blue outlines, possibly worked in stem stitch.
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