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Tab with circles, interlace, and cartouches
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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 turquoise and brown silk; overcast stitching and drawn-thread openwork in yellow silk; linen backing; with stitching in white flax
- Dimensions
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19 x 13.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.01 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.282
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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. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A large tab with drawn open work in the centre, with remains of undyed yellow silk embroidery and an overlay of outline stitch embroidery in flax, shaped into circles and interlace. The tab also has a wide border embroidered in turquoise slanted counted filling stitch, with small, fine cartouches reserved against the turquoise background. The cartouches have brown outlines embroidered in outline stitch.
The tab has a complete backing of linen. It is therefore not possible to indicate the direction in which the filling stitch has been worked.
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