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Textile fragment with stylized rosettes
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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 silk; with a hem, run-and-fell seam, and open seam in flax
- Dimensions
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20 x 18.7 cm (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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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.
- EA1993.52
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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. 13 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 13
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Stylized rosettes are arranged in staggered rows.
There is a hem and two seams, of which one is a run-and-fell seam, the other open.
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