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Textile fragment with alternating rectangles and squares
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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 dark-blue and yellow silk; pulled-thread openwork
- Dimensions
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30 x 4.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 27 / 30 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band 1.2 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.439
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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 narrow band is divided into alternating rectangles and squares. The design outlines are embroidered in yellow satin stitch; the rectangles are further divided by a lozenge containing an S-shape embroidered in blue double running stitch and triangles of yellow pulled work with wrapping stitches in diagonal lines. The squares each hold a small four-armed spiral outlined in blue double running stitch.
The band is 1.2 cm wide.
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