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Textile fragment with foliate S-shapes and palmettes
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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 blue and remains of undyed silk
- Dimensions
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16 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 29 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 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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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.119
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. p. 80 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 80
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Large curving tendrils are symmetrically arranged, turning left and right alternately. The tendrils have remains of yellow stitching, the background was filled with dark blue. Most of the embroidery has disintegrated, but apparently both colours were worked in slanted counted filling stitch.
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