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Textile fragment with linked quatrefoils, possibly from a sash or turban cloth
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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 pale-blue silk, and metal thread, possibly silver, wrapped around a silk core; with three rolled hems in silk
- Dimensions
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24 x 17.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
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textile › cloth › turban cloth,clothing › head-gear › turban › turban cloth
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.405
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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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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A large rectangle has a continuous overall design of linked quatrefoils, giving the visual impression of overlapping circles. The embroidery outlines the shapes.
There are finely rolled hems along three sides of the textile. These are whipped with silk; as a border decoration a single thread of the embroidery fibre is twisted around a metal thread (silver?) with a silk core, and is inserted along the hem line. The textile probably was used as a sash or turban cloth.
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