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Textile fragment with interlocking diamonds and swastikas
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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, embroidered with brown silk; with an open seam in silk
- Dimensions
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21.5 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 32 / 32 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 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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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.366
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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 continuous overall pattern of linked, interlocking diamonds with alternately a small rosette or a swastika in the centre.
Some of the embroidery has deteriorated, which makes the design appear to be arranged in bands, although it was originally a continuous pattern field. At the short end of the fragment is an open seam. The textile is very fine and of outstanding quality.
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