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Textile fragment with linked diamond-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 blue silk; with a rolled hem in silk
- Dimensions
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24 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 16 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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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.
- EA1984.558
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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
A band is filled with a single row of linked red diamonds, each with a cross at the centre; the space between the diamonds is filled with blue triangles. In addition there are border bands along both sides of the band, filled with fine blue triangles and framed with a single row of red interlace.
At right angles to the band is a rolled whipped hem. There is the beginning of an additional blue embroidery design, but it is so fragmentary that the pattern cannot be read.
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