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Textile fragment from a belt or scarf with trefoils and leaves
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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; woven with five silk warp threads at selvedge; with a rolled hem in flax
- Dimensions
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9.5 x 13 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.02 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
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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.
- EA1993.150
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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. 111 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 111
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A band of trefoils and leaves on a chevron stem and borders with a small leaf pattern. The embroidery provides the background.
There is a finely rolled hem along one side, and the remains of a selvedge along the other. The selvedge includes five silk warp threads. The design and technical detail is identical to EA1993.151; both were part of a belt or scarf.
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