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Textile fragment with three octagons
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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 coloured silk
- Dimensions
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11.5 x 9.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.02 cm min. (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.
- EA1984.520
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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
Three octagons with eight spokes, embroidered in turquoise slanted counted filling stitch worked in diagonal rows, with dark blue outlines embroidered in double running stitch. Small yellow satin stitch triangles with fragmentary remains of brown embroidery are set between the octagons, and there is a border of turquoise and yellow lozenges. All outlines are worked in dark blue double running stitch.
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