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Textile fragment with pseudo kufic inscription
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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 red, blue, and traces of dark-brown silk
- Dimensions
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12.5 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 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.
- EA1993.94
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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. 55 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 55
Glossary
kufic
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kufic
A term denoting various styles of angular Arabic script. Emerged in the early centuries of Islam, kufic soon became the preferred hand to copy holy texts.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A band of pseudo-kufic script in blue is arranged between narrow red and brown borders. The red border is embroidered in back stitch, the inscription in pattern darning running stitch.
The Kufic script may be a corrupted version of al-mulk 'the kingdom'. The brown embroidery is almost entirely disintegrated.
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