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Textile fragment with crosses made of hooks
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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 light-blue, dark-blue, and red silk
- Dimensions
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14 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1 2.3 cm (width)
embroidery band 2 0.9 cm (width)
embroidery band 3 1.1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.262
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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 band with dark blue embroidery showing small hooks arranged into crosses; the band has two lines of light blue embroidery stitches as a border. Diagonally set to it are two narrow bands, one red with small hooks, the other red and light blue with small diamonds and four-wheeled spirals. The embroidery provides the background.
The first band is 2.3 cm wide, the second one 0.9 cm, and the third 1.1 cm.
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