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Textile fragment with bands of zigzags
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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, brown, and yellow silk
- Dimensions
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12.5 x 13 cm max. (warp x weft)
along length/width 26 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.04 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.
- EA1984.215
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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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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Three narrow bands with very deteriorated zigzag bands and ?heart-shapes, and two wider bands of ?inscription. The narrow bands are mostly embroidered in brown, but also have some blue and very few remains of yellow; the inscription bands are mostly blue, but some remains of geometric patterning is brown. One of the narrow bands runs parallel and close to the selvedge.
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