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Textile fragment with diamond-shapes and floral patterns
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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 and undyed silk
- Dimensions
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22 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
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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.
- EA1993.108
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. p. 69 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 69
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
The fragment is entirely filled with two deep bands of diamond and floral patterns, separated by narrow borders with a continuous tendril and leaf design. All outlines are worked in yellow (undyed) split stitch, the background is filled entirely with counted slanted filling stitch worked primarily in diagonal rows.
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