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Textile fragment with two large S-shapes
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red and brown silk; with hems in flax and silk
- Dimensions
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22 x 6.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 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.
- EA1984.406
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. vol. iii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two bands, each with a large S-shape filled with small crosses, and borders with stylized plants. The embroidery colour alternates between red and brown; the brown S-shape is set into a red band with brown borders, while the red S-shape has a brown background and red borders.
The S-shapes and borders are embroidered in pattern darning running stitch, the background is covered with slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal. There is the beginning of a third band. The two long edges of the fragment have hems; these are at right angles to the bands.
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