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Textile fragment with cartouches and rosettes
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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 turquoise, yellow, and brown silk; pulled-thread openwork
- Dimensions
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49.5 x 19.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
28 / 33 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (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.
- EA1984.424
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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 narrow bands contain cartouches and rosettes. Each cartouche holds a small medallion flanked by two flowers, embroidered in yellow against a background of either brown or turquoise. The small rosettes are six-petalled and embroidered with satin stitch in turquoise outlines. Split or stem stitch are used for both outlines and as filling stitch. Between the cartouches are medallions filled with pulled work worked with three-sided stitch.
The bands are parallel to the selvedge. They are 1 cm wide.
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