The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
An unpublished catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Islamic embroideries from Egyptologist Percy Newberry, by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis.
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Textile fragment with peonies, leaves, and squares
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Literature notes
Flowers on stems with leaves with a scrolling stem border beneath, worked in dark-blue chain stitch outlines with red background filled with slanted counted stitch. There also are the remains of two tabs worked in needlelace, with a design of yellow squares divided into triangles.
The border of the cotton fabric has a rolled hem. The needlelace is worked on a framework of coarse cotton threads. -
Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red, dark-blue, and yellow silk; with a rolled hem in flax; remains of tabs with needlelace on cotton threads
- Dimensions
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22 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 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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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.139
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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. 100 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 100
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Flowers on stems with leaves with a scrolling stem border beneath, worked in dark-blue chain stitch outlines with red background filled with slanted counted stitch. There also are the remains of two tabs worked in needlelace, with a design of yellow squares divided into triangles.
The border of the cotton fabric has a rolled hem. The needlelace is worked on a framework of coarse cotton threads.
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