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Textile fragment with swastikas, linked hooks, and 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 pink and brown silk; with rolled hems and a seam in flax
- Dimensions
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35.5 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
- EA1984.392
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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
Three rectangles, two of which are pink, the third is brown. The brown band is placed between the two pink ones. The pink rectangles have a wide band in the centre which has large and small linked diamonds, the small ones each with a swastika; a small bird is placed in the space between the diamonds. This wide band has borders of knotted interlace followed by a zigzag edge. The brown rectangle has a wide central band with small, linked hook motifs; the borders have the same design as those of the pink rectangles.
The rectangles have been sewn together into a single band, with a rolled and whipped hem along both sides. There is an additional seam at one of the narrow ends.
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