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Textile fragment with curved leaves
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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 undyed silk; with stitching in blue flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 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.
- EA1993.120
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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. 81 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 81
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Curving tendrils with small leaves fill a wide band; there are the remains of a border with S-shapes. The design is worked in yellow split stitch outlines against a blue background done in slanted counted filling stitch.
The embroidery is badly deteriorated. Some blue flax thread has been stitched over part of the fragment, for an uncertain reason.
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