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Textile fragment with quilted bands

  • 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

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      • 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

      Two bands of red and one band of green silk fabric have been quilted to a backing of linen. They have buttonhole-embroidered eyelets along the edge of each band, as well as down the centre. Further embroidery is along the border of each band.

      The ground fabric has a flat seam in it, at right angles to the bands. On the reverse is a small paper label with the number 372.1888; it looks like a museum accession number. Newberry had close contacts with the Victoria and Albert Museum, but the number does not correspond to their catalogue entry, where 372.1888 is an English vase.

      The fragment has been radiocarbon dated to 1580 +/- 55.

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