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Textile fragment with naskhi inscription
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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
- Dimensions
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15 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.50
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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 naskhi inscription in reserve against a red embroidered background. The embroidery takes the shape of a large chevron zigzag; very small remains of blue silk indicate that a narrow blue band once ran alongside the wide red one.
The inscription reads (al-ma)jd wa l-dan(?) wa l-r(ahma) which can only partly be translated as 'pomp and [?] and rest'. Threads are couched down over surface satin filling stitches.
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