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Textile fragment with tiraz band
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 10th - 11th century (AD 901 - 1100)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red silk
- Dimensions
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35 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
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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.
- EA1988.37
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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 tiraz fragment with crude red stitching, reading "Bismillah al-rahman al-rahim" (in the name of God, the compassionate, the merciful), which is repeated four and a half times.
The original accession card dates the textile to the 10th/11th century, with origin in Egypt.
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