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Textile fragment with cartouche, trefoils, and leaves

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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 is filled with a hexagonal cartouche made up from a square filled with linked trefoils and leaves, partly arranged as a large ornate quatrefoil, and two triangles along parallel sides of the square. The triangles are each filled with a floral vine. The background of the band is filled with openwork embroidered in yellow silk, the hexagon is embroidered with slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal. The embroidery defines the background. Along either side of the band is a border with a continuous vine. Again the embroidery in green slanted filling stitch defines the background.

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