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Textile fragment with an octagon, rosette, and vine
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 13th century - 14th century
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with blue and brown silk
- Dimensions
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9.5 x 9 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
- EA1984.96
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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
An octagon has an eight-petalled rosette at the centre which is framed by a continuous vine with flower heads.
The slanted counted filling stitches are worked in diagonal rows. There are fragmentary remains of a brown outline, possibly embroidered in stem stitch.
The radiocarbon analysis provided a date of 1237 AD +/- 36
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