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Textile fragment with interlace rosettes, stars, and flowers
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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 blue and yellow silk; needle-woven openwork; with a rolled hem and remains of a hem in flax
- Dimensions
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37 x 29 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.274
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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. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A grid of open work needle weaving leaves separate rectangles, each of which contains either an interlace rosette with trefoil finials, or an eight-pointed star with a smaller star at the centre, surrounded by eight small flowers, all stitched in blue.
A rolled hem runs along the length of the fragment, and there are remains of hem stitching along a second side at right angles. The fragment was probably part of a cover or curtain.
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