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Textile fragment with S-shapes, possibly from a square cover or kerchief
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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 brown and blue silk; with a rolled hem in flax
- Dimensions
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28.5 x 26 cm (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery bands 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 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.
- EA1984.474
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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
Eight narrow bands contain a continuous line of S-shapes, linked to make up a design of vines and trumpet-shaped leaves. Four of the bands are embroidered blue, the other four are brown.
The bands are 1 cm wide. Six of them are arranged in two groups of three each, parallel to one another and set at right angles between the remaining two bands. The fabric has a rolled hem on all four sides; it was used as a square cover or kerchief.
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