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Textile fragment with interlacing roundels, birds, and pseudo-inscription
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Material and technique
- linen bands, tapestry woven with coloured silk; hessian backing; joined with stitching
- Dimensions
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11.5 x 9 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric .02 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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- No. of items
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- Credit line
- Presented by the Reverend Greville J. Chester, 1892.
- Accession no.
- EA1988.51
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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, vol. i p. 9 n. 13, illus. vol. i
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two tapestry bands are woven into a plain fabric. The tapestry is woven in silk, coloured red, black, yellow, green and blue. One band has interlacing roundels with birds and palmettes, the other combines three design bands, including a blue interlacing, a pseudo-inscription, and a slightly smaller repetition of the interlaced roundels.
The fragment has been sewn onto a hessian backing. Purchased at Akhmim. Rev. G.J. Chester Collection.
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