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Textile fragment with bands of scrolls
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
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Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
Ayyubid Period or Mamluk Period
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
- Dimensions
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19.5 x 6 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
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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.
- EA1984.117
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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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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two parallel bands are very closely set together; they contain a couched red scroll pattern partly arranged into plant shapes which alternate in their direction. The red scrolls have blue outlines.
The couching is single thread; the blue outlines are embroidered in split stitch.
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