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Textile fragment with band of hooks and diamond-shapes
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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 dark-brown silk
- Dimensions
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13 x 16.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
26 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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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.
- EA1984.145
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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 wide band filled with hook motifs and diamond patterns; along the two borders is a very narrow band with alternating ?palmette and diamond shapes.
The darning stitches of the wide band move parallel to the selvedge, while the stitches of the narrow border on either side of the band move at right angles to it. The border has smaller stitches than the wide band.
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