Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

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Textile fragment with grid of diagonal lines

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    A rectangle filled with a grid pattern of diagonal lines, of which the intersections create small and large diamonds. The lines are embroidered dark blue, using double running stitch, the larger of the diamonds are embroidered with light blue slanted counted filling stitch worked on the diagonal.

    The two long sides of the cloth are hemmed.

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