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Textile fragment with rosette and scrolls

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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 large square measuring 14 cm x 14.5 cm contains a stylised, elaborate blue rosette with four large and four small petals, each of which is filled with scrolls. At the centre of the flower head is a small quatrefoil. The scrolls are the unembroidered ground fabric, while the blue embroidery defines the outlines and background. It is worked in slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal. The four corners of the square are filled with drawn-thread work with very few remains of yellow silk embroidery, as well as flowers embroidered in undyed flax darning stitch. The square has a border on all four sides, containing small cartouches and tendrils against a background filled with blue slanted counted filling stitch embroidery.

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