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Textile fragment with pear-shaped stylized flowers on stems
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 10th - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- two pieces of cotton, one piece embroidered with red, blue, and yellow silk and metal thread, the other piece embroidered with blue and cream silk and metal thread; pieces joined with two rolled hems in mercerized cotton
- Dimensions
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114 x 81.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 (with red, blue, and yellow silk) 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 (with blue and cream silk) 17 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.01 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.
- EA1993.293
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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. 254 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 254
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two end borders with a repeating design of floral motifs; each motif has three pear-shaped stylized flowers on stems.
Two pieces are joined: the embroidery of one is red, blue, and yellow, of the other it is blue and cream. Two rolled hems are oversewn with buttonhole stitch.
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