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Textile fragment with lattice of diamond-shapes
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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; with two rolled hems in flax
- Dimensions
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10.5 x 28.5 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.01 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.
- EA1993.135
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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. 96 (vol. iv), illus. vol. iv p. 96
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 broad band embroidered from side to side with a diamond lattice design, embroidered in slanted filling stitch with double running outlines. The outlines are embroidered with 2-ply silk thread, the filling is floss.
One narrow end of the band has a selvedge. Both long sides have a rolled hem. "13 - 15" written on the original card by Percy Newberry.
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