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Roundel textile fragment with interlace and lozenges
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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 blue silk; with stitching in blue flax, probably the remains of quilting
- Dimensions
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20 x 19.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.01 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.
- EA1984.132
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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 large roundel is divided into three bands separated by a single line of interlace. The bands have a trellis design filled with lozenges, some of which are arranged as six-petalled rosettes.
Very few stitches remain, but the design is clearly visible because of the former quilting.
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