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Textile fragment with three bands of diamond-shapes
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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 blue and brown silk; with repair stitching and remains of a hem, possibly in flax
- Dimensions
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23.5 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 2 cm (width)
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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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.
- EA1984.407
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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
Three bands of blue diamonds, each containing a small cross in brown outline, and separated by a brown circle and two half-diamonds.
The outlines are embroidered in double running stitch, the blue diamonds are embroidered in slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal. The bands are 2 cm wide and placed 4.5 cm apart. They are set at right angles to a selvedge and the remains of a hem. There also are some mending stitches.
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