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Textile fragment with palmettes, chevron stems, and leaves
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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 silk
- Dimensions
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24.4 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (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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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.
- EA1993.157
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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. 118 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 118
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
A wide band is filled with a continuous chevron design with a trefoil finial. Background and embroidery repeat the same pattern, so that it can be seen as either blue or white. The bans has the remains of borders on three sides, each with a single row of paired tendrils.
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