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Textile fragment with grid of diagonal lines
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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 dark-blue cotton and light-blue thread, possibly flax; with hems in flax
- Dimensions
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20 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.410
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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 rectangle filled with a grid pattern of diagonal lines, of which the intersections create small and large diamonds. The lines are embroidered dark blue, using double running stitch, the larger of the diamonds are embroidered with light blue slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal.
The two long sides of the cloth are hemmed.
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