Asset ID:
8254
CMS Object ID:
239998
Accession Number:
EA1993.153
Title:
Textile fragment with tendrils
Object Name:
textile
Object dating:
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
Associated place(s):
Egypt (find spot) ; Fustat (find spot) ; Near East (place of creation)
Dimensions:
12 x 7 cm (length x width) ; along length/width 21 / 25 threads/cm (thread count) ; ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter) ; additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
Materials/ techniques:
linen, embroidered with red and remains of yellow silk
Responsible department:
Eastern Art
Single/ multiple object:
Single
Asset copyright notice:
© Ashmolean Museum
View:
Front
Key words:
- arm
- azemmour
- background
- band
- canvas
- category
- century
- counted
- cross
- detail
- dictionaries
- direction
- effect
- egypt
- embroidered
- embroiderers
- embroidery
- forth
- furnishings
- greek
- herringbone
- historically
- homes
- horizontal
- instructions
- islands
- lines
- long
- long-armed
- mamluk
- method
- morocco
- ones
- origin
- paired
- part
- plaited
- positions
- qualities
- red
- remains
- results
- reverse
- reversed
- row
- rows
- side
- silk
- slanting
- stitch
- stitches
- stitching
- tendrils
- textile
- trefoils
- vertical
- way
- work
- yellow
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