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Textile fragment with alternating diamond-shapes and hexagons
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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 brown and blue silk
- Dimensions
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26.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 21 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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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.
- EA1984.569
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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 band with a single row of linked alternating diamonds and hexagons. The geometric shapes are embroidered in brown and blue. The diamonds each contain a star; the interior design of the hexagons cannot be read for certain, but may be a four-armed spiral. Along both sides of the band is a border with hexagons, each holding an S-shape.
The main band and borders are separated by a single line of brown cross stitches.
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