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Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes, hooks, squares, and crosses
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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 brown silk, and remains of silver thread wrapped around a metal core; additional red silk fragment; joined with a flat seam in flax; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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19.5 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery 6.8 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.06 cm (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,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.239
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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
Two bands embroidered blue, each with a single row of linked diamonds and hook motifs; between the bands there is a continuous design field with linked squares containing a cross, embroidered in blue. The design of the brown embroidery and the remains of metal thread can no longer be identified.
The embroidery field is complete in its width (6.8 cm), and there are remains of stitching along three sides. A fragment of red silk has been sewn onto one narrow end with a flat seam. There are remains of the core of metal thread, some of it still with traces of silver wrapped around.
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