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Textile fragment with S-shapes and diamond-shape borders
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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 flax and brown silk; with rolled hems in flax
- Dimensions
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33 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.399
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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. iii, 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
Four bands provide the borders to a rectangular cloth. The design of all four bands is made up of identical linked S-shapes and diamonds, but the colour changes. Two bands are embroidered with brown pattern darning running stitch with a fine border in blue stem stitch, while the other two reverse the colour.
There is a selvedge along one side, and rolled hems whipped with flax thread along the other three.
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