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Textile fragment with linked diamond-shapes
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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 brown and blue silk; with remains of a rolled hem in silk
- Dimensions
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21 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1.5 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.04 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.
- EA1984.256
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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 set at right angles to each other and with the same design of linked diamonds stitched in red embroidery. The embroidery defines the outline. One of the bands also has a single line of blue stitching as a border.
The bands are 1.5 cm wide. There are the remains of a rolled hem sewn with silk.
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