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Textile fragment with circles and ovals
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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 coloured silk; with a rolled hem in silk
- Dimensions
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36 x 8.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.425
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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 narrow band with alternating circles and ovals. The circles are all turquoise, the ovals alternate between blue and brown, with remains of yellow outlines. All outlines are embroidered in split stitch; the blue and turquoise circles and ovals are done in diagonal filling stitch worked on the diagonal, the brown ovals in couching stitch.
The two short sides of the textile have a finely rolled hem, whipped with silk.
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