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Textile fragment with birds carrying leaves
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
- 11th century - 1st half of the 12th century
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with coloured silk
- Dimensions
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53 x 23 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
embroidery band (birds) 2.3 cm (width)
embroidery band (vine) 1 cm (width)
ground fabric 0.05 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,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.273
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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. ii, illus. vol. i
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
Two parallel bands, the wider one embroidered with a row of brown birds, each with a leaf in its beak. This band has a border of yellow and brown back stitch. The second band has a continuous row of linked vine and leaves, mostly embroidered in red, but changing to yellow for part of it.
The wider band has a width of 2.3 cm, the narrow one 1 cm.
The textile has been radiocarbon dated to 957 AD +/- 37, with a calibrated result of 980 to 1160. It fits stylistically into the late 10th or 11th century.
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