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Roundel textile fragment with crosses and linked crosses
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Details
- Associated place
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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
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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)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.244
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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. 205 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 205
Location
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- currently in research collection
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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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