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Textile fragment with two bands of medallions
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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 yellow silk; pulled-thread openwork; with remains of a rolled hem
- Dimensions
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14 x 7 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 31 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 2.3 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,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.440
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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 parallel bands of medallions linked by tendrils, framed by a chevron border. The medallions are embroidered with yellow pulled work with wrapping stitches in diagonal rows, the tendrils and chevrons are yellow split stitch.
The bands are 2.3 cm wide and are set at right angles to a selvedge along one side of the fragment, and a rolled hem along the other. The sewing thread of the hem has disintegrated.
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