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Textile fragment with octagon containing an eight-pointed star
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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 dark-blue, blue, and yellow silk; with stitching in silk
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 10 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 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,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.529
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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 wide band with an octagon containing an eight-pointed star, four points of which have an S-shape embroidered in blue satin stitch. Four sides of the octagon have a triangle added that is embroidered in yellow satin stitch. The designs on either side of the octagon have deteriorated and cannot be reconstructed, but like the octagon they were set into a four-sided diamond. The space between these linked diamonds is filled with hook motifs. All outlines are embroidered in dark blue double running stitch.
The width of the band is 10 cm.
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