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Textile fragment with band of diagonal lines and tendrils
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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 red silk; additional linen; joined with a run-and-fell seam in flax; with an additional seam in flax
- Dimensions
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34 x 14.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 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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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.
- EA1984.570
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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 filled with fine diagonal lines and attached ?tendrils. The band itself is worked with double running stitch, the border of two parallel red lines is worked in double line stitch.
The band has a width of 1 cm. Along one side of the textile is a run-and-fell seam and additional fabric without embroidery. Along the opposite side are the remains of a second seam.
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