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Textile fragment with swastikas and stars
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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 yellow and brown silk, and blue flax; with a rolled hem in flax
- Dimensions
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16 x 6.5 cm (warp x weft)
24 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands (swastikas) 1.5 cm (width)
embroidery band (stars) 2 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.377
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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 bands with blue swastikas set into squares, and one band with three stars partly filled with yellow embroidery against a blue background.
The first two bands are 1.5 cm wide, the third 2 cm. All three bands are parallel to each other, at a distance of 3 cm. There is a selvedge along one side of the fragment, and a rolled hem along the one opposite. The bands are at right angles to hem and selvedge.
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