Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Textile fragment with flowers, crosses, and interlacing diamond-shapes

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    • currently in research collection

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

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    Two parallel bands with interlacing diamonds, each filled with an eight-petalled flower; adjacent to one band is a continuous design of small linked crosses arranged into a grid, with a single cross inside each compartment.

    There is a hem sewn at right angles to the bands, as well as traces of ?quilting lines.

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