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Textile fragment with quatrefoils arranged as diamond-shapes or squares
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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, with openwork embroidered with yellow and blue silk; with a rolled hem in flax
- Dimensions
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23 x 11.5 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
- EA1984.278
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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 is entirely filled with openwork embroidered with needle weaving and quatrefoils in pale blue and yellow satin stitch, arranged as diamonds or squares. The borders of the band have a single line of cross stitch along all four sides.
There is a selvedge along one side and a rolled hem along the other.
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