Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes and stylized vines

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    A wide central band with linked diamonds, densely embroidered, has a narrow border band on either side with a stylized vine and tendrils. For these bands the embroidery fills in the background. Stylized plants are embroidered at right angles along the narrow end of the bands.

    There is a stitched hem along one side with a selvedge.

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