Double Running Stitch Charts - Medieval Middle Eastern Counted-Thread Embroidery

MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EASTERN DOUBLE RUNNING STITCH EMBROIDERY
Graphed by Rosemary Stecher (Mathilde Eschenbach)

Linen fragment with design of octagons arranged diagonally
Brown and blue silk on linen, Egypt, 10th-15th century, probably Mamluk period. Also traces of yellow thread in some of the octagons, not noted by the museum.

Accession number EA1984.414 at the Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
The Jameel Centre for the Study of Eastern Art, University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum.

Chart for Double Running Stitch Embroidery

Chart for Double Running Stitch Embroidery

Close examination of the zoom view also shows traces of yellow thread in some of the octagons, so I suspect that the orginal has diagonal stripes of the octagons, alternating brown and yellow, which I have shown in the graph.
The octagons are outlined in a blue filling stitch which appears to be cross stitch, and there are eyelet stitchs in the center of the intersections.
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MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EASTERN DOUBLE RUNNING STITCH EMBROIDERY Graphed by Rosemary Stecher (Mathilde Eschenbach)

Linen fragment with design of octagons arranged diagonally Brown and blue silk on linen, Egypt, 10th-15th century, probably Mamluk period. Also traces of yellow thread in some of the octagons, not noted by the museum.

MEDIEVAL MIDDLE EASTERN DOUBLE RUNNING STITCH EMBROIDERY
Graphed by Rosemary Stecher (Mathilde Eschenbach)

Linen fragment with design of octagons arranged diagonally
Brown and blue silk on linen, Egypt, 10th-15th century, probably Mamluk period. Also traces of yellow thread in some of the octagons, not noted by the museum.