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Textile fragment with chevron and cruciform rosettes

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    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    Near East (place of creation)
    Date
    10th - 15th century AD
    Material and technique
    two pieces of linen, embroidered with red silk; joined with an open seam in flax
    Dimensions
    20.5 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
    15 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
    ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
    additional fibre, embroidery 0.08 cm (thread diameter)
    Material index
    linen,
    linen,
    silk,
    silk,
    flax
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    embroidered,
    stitched,
    stitched
    Object type index
    textile
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1993.96

  • Further reading

    Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. p. 57 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 57

Location

    • currently in research collection

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