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Textile fragment with diamond-shapes containing stars
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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; with a rolled hem in flax
- Dimensions
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27 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 10 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,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.563
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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 of brown stars set into blue square diamonds, linked by cross-shaped rectangles filled with blue interlace. Along both sides of the band is a border with a single row of brown diamonds containing a swastika, against blue triangles. Most of the embroidery is worked in stepped double running stitch, but there is a row of single cross stitch seperating the wide band from the swastika border.
There is a rolled, whipped hem along one side of the band. The complete width of band and borders is 10 cm.
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