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Textile fragment with lobed rosettes, rhomboids, and tendrils
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 11th - 12th century (1001 - 1200)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red and blue silk
- Dimensions
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11 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.262
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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. 223 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 223
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A wide design field with individual six-petalled blue rosettes with red centres, separated by linked rhomboids, each of which is filled with a tendril.
Only the embroidery of the rosettes remains, although the rhombic shapes and small vines are clearly visible as outline drawings.
The fragment has a radiocarbon date of 1027 AD +/- 36.
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