Textile fragment from a sleeve, with interlace, linked stars, and rosettes
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a sleeve, with interlace, linked stars, and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, embroidered with undyed and beige silk; linen backing; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
embroidery bands 7.5 cm (width)
along length/width 36 / 36 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.1 cm (thread diameter) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1984.269
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Catalogue text
A band of continuous interlacing is arranged in two rows of linked five-pointed stars, with small six-petalled rosettes in a single line between.
The fragment has two layers sewn together, and it has the shape of a sleeve cuff. The width of the band is 7.5 cm.In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, vol. ii, vol. i
