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Textile fragment with palmettes

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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

    The virtually square fragment has an embroidered border on three sides, with continuously linked palmettes.

    The border is 1.8 cm wide. The embroidery is badly deteriorated, but the prick marks clearly reveal the design. There are traces of seams along three sides, parallel to the embroidery. It is not possible to definitely determine the stitch, but it is most likely that the stitches remaining were done to hold an ornamental thread or cord in place, i.e. are remains of couching.

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