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Textile fragment with vines and leaves, probably from a garment or trousers
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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 light-green silk; with a hem and flat seam in flax
- Dimensions
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11 x 18 cm max. (warp x weft)
along length/width 26 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 18 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 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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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.
- EA1984.382
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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
Two bands filled with embroidered vines and leaves are set at diagonals to a border band; additional flowers and vines fill the space between.
The embroidery defines the design. There is a hem along the border band, as well as a flat seam at right angles to the hem, one side of which has a selvedge. The hem suggests that the fragment was either from the neckline of a garment, or the bottom of trousers.
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