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Textile fragment with cartouches and rosettes
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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 and blue silk; remains of pulled-thread openwork
- Dimensions
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31 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 28 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 0.8 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.01 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.441
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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
Three parallel narrow bands with cartouches and small blue rosettes with six petals. The cartouches are blue and each contain three linked ovals embroidered in yellow. The split and stem stitch is used for both outlines and filling, and there are small yellow circles in eyelet stitch, as well as remains of pulled work with three-sided stitch.
The bands are 0.8 cm wide, with 4.3 cm between each. The fragment is identical to EA1984.424.
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