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Sampler fragment with chevrons and double crosses
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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 flax, and brown and olive-green thread, possibly cotton
- Dimensions
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21.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 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.
- EA1984.493
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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
Sampler fragment with one band filled with small chevrons and double crosses, and very narrow bands with small triangles or arrows alternating with simple crosses, and a step pattern. The chevrons are worked in counted straight stitch. Some of the double running stitch uses two colours, which makes it easy to follow the stitch sequence.
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