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Textile fragment with band of Z-shapes and squares
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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 and brown silk
- Dimensions
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28 x 5.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.8 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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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.
- EA1984.521.a
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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 band with large Z-shapes alternates with squares containing a four-armed spiral; the band has a simple geometric border. Parallel to it is a very narrow row of two simple geometric shapes, possibly imitating script. All outlines are embroidered in dark blue double running stitch, while the space between the Z-shapes and squares have brown darning stitches worked over and under one thread.
The band is 1.8 cm wide, the distance to the narrow row is 3 cm.
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