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

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Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, triangles, and palmettes

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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

    A wide band of green embroidery, with a linked diamond design, and a brown border made up of triangles, each with a small palmette at the apex.

    There is a rolled hem along the edge that is parallel to the selvedge, which shows that the textile panel was intended to be 13.5 cm wide.

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