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Textile fragment with two bands of ovals containing small crescents
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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, tapestry woven with coloured flax; band woven with supplementary weft
- Dimensions
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14 x 28 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.449
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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
Two narrow bands of tapestry weave with brown, white, yellow, and green ovals containing small crescents, against a brown background; a wider band of blue diamonds and half diamonds, woven in supplementary weft.
This fragment is not embroidered, but patterned by weave technique. The bands are at right angles to the selvedge.
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