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Textile fragment with quatrefoils and interlacing kufic script

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    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    Near East (place of creation)
    Date
    late 12th century - early 13th century
    Ayyubid Period (1169 - 1260)
    Material and technique
    linen, embroidered with brown, blue, and purple silk, and undyed flax; additional piece of linen; joined with a flat seam in flax
    Dimensions
    13 x 9.5 cm (length x width)
    along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 0.05 cm max. (thread diameter)
    ground fabric 0.03 cm min. (thread diameter)
    additional fibre, embroidery 0.03 cm (thread diameter)
    Material index
    linen,
    linen,
    silk,
    silk,
    flax
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    embroidered,
    stitched,
    stitched
    Object type index
    textile
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1984.108

  • Further reading

    Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. vol. ii, vol. i p. 20, illus. vol. i

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kufic

Location

    • 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 field with a diamond pattern filled with quatrefoils and interlacing is followed by a line of drawn thread and a band of interlace kufic. The outlines of diamonds, quatrefoils, and scrolled interlacing are embroidered with flax thread, the background is filled with silk thread.

    The embroidery is extremely fine. An additional fragment of plain tabby linen is sewn to the kufic band with a flat seam.

    The uncalibrated radiocarbon date is 1036 AD +/- 35, but the calibrated date of 1030 to 1210 may place the textile into the post-Fatimid period, which is likely on stylistic grounds.

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