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Textile fragment with quatrefoils set into 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 blue, green, and yellow silk; pulled-thread openwork; linen backing; with a hem and stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 10.3 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric, along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
backing, along length/width 20 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.05 cm min. (thread diameter)
backing 0.05 cm (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.
- EA1984.517
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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
Quatrefoils are set into diamonds, two of which are blue, one green. A split stitch is used both as outline and filling. Between the diamonds are yellow rosettes with split stitch outline and satin stitch filling. All are set against a background of pulled work embroidery in yellow three-sided stitch. The design is contained in a band with a narrow border embroidered in blue satin stitch.
The band has been hemmed and then is sewn diagonally onto a plain linen backing.
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