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Textile fragment with two trefoils and rows of circles
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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 and silver thread
- Dimensions
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11 x 7.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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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.
- EA1984.581
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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 small rectangle is filled completely with couched designs, much of it in silver thread. Outlines are embroidered in split stitch. It is difficult to make out the pattern, but there are two trefoils against a yellow ground, as well as two rows of circles. On one side of the rectangle are two separate circles, each filled with a single trefoil.
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