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Textile fragment with linked medallions
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
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Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
Ayyubid Period or Mamluk Period
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with coloured silk, and thread, possibly flax and cotton
- Dimensions
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15 x 3.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 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.
- EA1984.116
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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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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
A narrow band of linked medallions containing dense scrolling in a natural colour against a blue, green, and brown ground, with pink outlines. In addition there is a very narrow border on one side of the band, with a running scroll of s-shapes on a green ground.
The couching is single thread. The outline and scrolling is embroidered in stem stitch with ?flax thread.
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