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Textile fragment with calligraphic band, possibly from a tunic
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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 green, red, and black silk, and white flax; with run-and-fell seams in cotton or flax
- Dimensions
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23 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 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)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.115
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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 stylized calligraphic band with double spiral scrolls. The background is filled with green couching, the scrolls are defined by undyed flax thread.
The couching is single thread. There are isolated chain stitches. At right angles to the band are two run-and-fell seams on two sides of the fragment; the tailored seams were possibly part of the top of a tunic.
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