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Textile fragment with stripes and palmettes, probably a jar cover
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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 and blue fabric, possibly cotton, embroidered with red silk; with seams in flax; drawstring
- Dimensions
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11.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric (linen), along length/width 18 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (blue), along length/width 26 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (linen) 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
ground fabric (blue) 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.91
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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. 52 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 52
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
A circle is divided into two blue quarters of finely woven linen, and two quarters undyed linen embroidered with staggered rows of cruciform palmettes.
There is a draw string all around the edge of the roundel; it probably was used as a jar cover.
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