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Textile fragment with geometric shapes and a diamond-shaped medallion
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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 coloured silk; with a hem in silk
- Dimensions
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46 x 13 cm (warp x weft)
19 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
- EA1993.93
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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. 54 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 54
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A band divided into patterned areas, containing diagonal rows of small geometric motifs, separated by horizontal bands of diamond pattern. One end has a truncated diamond-shaped medallion flanked by two birds within a triangle.
There is a selvedge along one long side, and a hem along the other.
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