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Textile fragment with swastika-filled 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, embroidered with brown and red silk
- Dimensions
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19 x 19.5 cm (warp x weft)
21 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.398
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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. iii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A grid of small, linked squares is diagonally set into the corner of the fabric. Each square contains a swastika; the design is outlined in brown embroidery. Next to the selvedge is an additional single row of squares filled with red embroidery.
The outlines are embroidered in pattern darning running stitch, the red squares in close counted herringbone.
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