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Textile fragment with stars and rhombic shapes
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 13th century - 14th century
- Material and technique
- linen, with pulled-thread openwork, and needle-woven drawn-thread openwork in yellow silk
- Dimensions
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23.5 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.279
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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 stars and rhombic shapes, worked in very fine drawn thread work with needle-woven bars and connecting loop stitch, as well as in pulled work with a variation of four-sided stitch, worked like a double-hem stitch.
The design is apparently made up from both pulled and drawn-thread work, embroidered in fine yellow needle weaving.
The fragment has a radiocarbon date of 1276 AD +/- 33.
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