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

Chart for Double Running Stitch Embroidery

BAND WITH ALTERNATING STARS AND INSCRIPTION

Blue silk on linen, Egypt, 10th-15th century, probably Mamluk period. There is also pulled-thread openwork in white silk.
Item is accession number EA1984.427.a at the Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
The Jameel Centre for the Study of Eastern Art, University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum.































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