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Textile fragment with lotus, possibly from a tent
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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 linen, embroidered with white, turquoise, and brown silk; linen backing; joined with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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21 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric, along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
backing, along length/width 11 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
backing 0.1 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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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
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textile › cloth › tent-cloth
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.585
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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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Publications online
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A band is separated into rectangles filled with an ornate lotus, and originally probably also interlacing, as in EA1984.579. The pattern is embroidered in brown and green, with white outlines. Between the rectangles and along the border are bands which contain S-shapes alternating with small crescents. There is the beginning of a second design on the other side of the border. The treatment of design is similar to EA1984.98 and EA1984.579.
The fragment is sewn together from two pieces of fabric; it also is attached to a backing of coarser linen, as in EA1984.579. It may have been part of a ?tent construction.
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