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Textile fragment with band of inscription
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- silk, dyed dark-brown and blue, and tapestry woven with white thread, probably flax
- Dimensions
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22 x 4 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 72 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
0.02 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1988.22
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Further reading
Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curious Works Press, 2001), p. 21
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
An inscription in white tapestry weave, probably flax fibre, is set into a band against a dark brown and blue background of curving tendrils.
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