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Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes
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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 and yellow silk; pulled-thread openwork; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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26 x 9.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 cm (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,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.444
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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 wide band with large, linked diamonds each filled with a knotted interlace, embroidered in blue pattern darning running stitch outlines and remains of yellow to fill the interior. The band also has a wide interlace border.
The embroidery is very fragmentary. The background to the diamond shapes was once embroidered with pulled work with yellow wrapping stitch in diagonal rows.
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