Asset ID:
7945
CMS Object ID:
239337
Accession Number:
EA1984.35
Title:
Tabs from a banner with fleur-de-lys, blazon, and trefoils
Object Name:
textile, banner, tent-hanging, curtain
Object dating:
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
Associated place(s):
Egypt (find spot) ; Fustat (find spot) ; Egypt (place of creation)
Dimensions:
25.5 x 23.5 cm (length x width) ; along length/width 22 / 22 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)
Materials/ techniques:
linen, embroidered with dark-blue silk; needle-woven openwork in undyed silk; linen backing; with stitching in flax
Responsible department:
Eastern Art
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
View:
Front
Key words:
- jamdar
- tabs
- 14th
- ad
- african
- al-hariri
- amirs
- assemblies
- authority
- band
- banner
- blazon
- blue
- canopies
- canopy
- category
- century
- circle
- cloth
- collection
- companions
- continuous
- depicts
- design
- designs
- diamond
- display
- edge
- edging
- emblems
- embroidery
- examples
- extra
- fabric
- five-sided
- followed
- fragments
- fringe
- function
- historian
- horseman
- ibn
- illustration
- important
- information
- journeys
- khaldun
- large
- lattice
- layers
- left
- linear
- linen
- long
- made
- manuscript
- master
- napkin
- narrow
- newberry
- office
- openwork
- original
- other
- owner
- parade
- part
- pattern
- philosopher
- place
- practice
- refers
- reports
- reverse
- right
- robes
- royal
- set
- shape
- single
- small
- split
- state
- stem
- stitches
- strip
- tab
- tabs
- tent
- tents
- threads
- top
- towers
- trefoils
- twenty
- warp
- weft
- worker
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