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Textile fragment with bands of curving lines and floral trefoils
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 14th century (1301 - 1400)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with blue, brown, and undyed silk; additional cloth strip, probably linen; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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21.7 x 17.3 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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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.
- EA1993.114
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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. 75 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 75
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two similar bands with double curving lines supporting trefoils; both bands have narrow S borders. The curves and trefoils are covered with yellow, the background with brown slanted counted filling stitches worked in diagonal rows; the outlines are in blue split stitch.
An additional strip of cloth has been sewn between the bands.
The textile has a radiocarbon result of 1301 AD +/- 39.
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