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Textile fragment with band of interlace
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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 light-blue silk; with a hem in flax, and a rolled hem in silk
- Dimensions
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16 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.4 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.
- EA1984.430
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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 filled with continuous interlacing; the interlace bands in turn are filled with cartouches and squares that are ornately filled with geometric patterns. The hexagonal spaces between the interlacing each have a spiral set into an octagon.
The embroidery of the interlace alternates between medium and light blue; the light blue is done with extremely fine darning stitches. One long side of the fragment has a hem stitched with 2-ply flax thread, while at right angles to it one of the short sides has a rolled hem whipped with silk thread.
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