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Roundel textile fragment with crosses and linked crosses

  • Details

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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
    remains of silk, dyed blue, and embroidered with yellow and purple silk; linen backing
    Dimensions
    13 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
    ground fabric (silk), along length/width 40 / 40 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric (linen), along length/width 20 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 1 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
    ground fabric 2 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
    additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 cm (thread diameter)
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    Material index
    silk,
    silk,
    linen,
    linen
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    dyed,
    dyed,
    embroidered
    Object type index
    textile,
    roundel
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1993.244

  • Further reading

    Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. p. 205 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 205

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    A yellow roundel with a border of linked crosses, filled with yellow and purple crosses. All crosses are embroidered in interlacing stitch, but the circular border also has a line of stem stitch on the inside.

    The roundel's ground fabric originally was blue silk, virtually all of which has desintegrated. There is a linen backing.

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