Embroidery charts

These are charts that I have done over some time. All are welcome to try them out, but please properly acknowledge!

The are Egyptian from the 10th-16th centuries.

This sampler is in the Ashmolean Museum. The whole design has been charted to a single page pdf document. Details of the item can be found in a post.
1345SamplerMamluk (PDF)

This tiraz is in the Ashmolean Museum. Details on the item can be found in a post.
Tiraz 903CE (PDF)

This piece is in the Ashmolean Museum. Details of the item can be seen in a post.
Kerchief (PDF)

This item is in the Ashmolean Museum. More details on the embroidery are in a post.
Squares and interlacing knots (PDF)

The pattern darning sampler is in the Ashmolean Museum. More details can be found in a post. There are many PDF single page documents to download.
Pattern 1 (PDF)
Pattern 2 (PDF)
Patterns 3 and 4 (PDF)
Pattern 5 (PDF)
Pattern 6 (PDF)
Pattern 7 (PDF)
Pattern 8 (PDF)

This sampler is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. There are more details on the sampler in a post. There are PDF documents to download.
V&A Sampler Pattern 1 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 2 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 3 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 4 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 5 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 6 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 7 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 8 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 9 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 10 (PDF)
V&A Sampler Pattern 11 (PDF)
Some of the same patterns has also been interpreted by Mathilde Eschenbach.

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Details can be found in the post A Blackwork Challenge.
1435 Mamluk towel PDF

The textile is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Details can be found on the post A second towel embroidery challenge.
Met towel PDF

This embroidery was found in the book “The Art of Embroidery” by Marie Schuette & Sigrid Muller-Christensen. For more details on the item, please see the post “A complicated Mamluk Embroidery”.
SchuetteMullerChristensen PDF

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. The details are in the post “A pattern darning chart”.
patterndarning1

manchesterembroidery
The textile is in the Whitworth Art Gallery in the University of Manchester. More information on this textile can be seen in the post “A new embroidery chart”.
manchesterembroidery (pdf)

artinstitutepatterndarning The full details on the textile can be seen in the post “Pattern Darning Chart”. The textile is in the Art Institute of Chicago.
artinstitutepatterndarning (PDF)

mfafragmentThis textile is in the Museum of Fine Ats, Boston. The details on this can be seen in a post.
mfaborderfragment (pdf)

diamondashmolean

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. The details on the textile can be seen in a post.
diamondashmolean (PDF)

interlockingfylfots This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. The details of the textile can be seen in the post “Interlocking fylfots chart”.
interlacingfylfots PDF

chequeredsquares This textile is currently in the Ashmolean Museum. The post with information on the textile can be seen at “A chequered embroidery”.
chequeredsquares (pdf)

diagonalwithhooks This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Information on the textile can be seen in the post “A diagonal embroidery with hooks”.
diagonalwithhooks (pdf)

walterssamplermamluk This textile is in the Walters Art Museum. Information on the textile can be seen in the post “A new mixed embroidery sampler”.
The layout-
walterssamplerlayout
walterssamplerpattern1 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern2 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern3 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern4 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern5 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern6 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern7 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern8 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern9 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern10 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern11 (pdf)
walterssamplerpattern12 (pdf)

interlockingzigzagashmolean The textile can be found in the Ashmolean Museum. The details on this textile can be found at An interlocking zigzag embroidery.
interlockingzigzag (pdf)

ashmoleanquatrefoil This textile can be found at the Ashmolean Museum. The details can be found in A blackwork with quatrefoils.
ashmoleanquatrefoils (pdf)

ashmoleantreesandmedallions This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Details on it can be found here- Two similar embroideries.
ashmoleantreesandmedallions (pdf)

vandadouble
The top textile in the picture can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Details on the textile can be found at the post Two similar embroideries.
vandatreesandmedallions (pdf)

vandashawl This textile can be found in the Victoria & Albert Museum. Details can be found in the post An embroidered Mamluk shawl.
vandamamlukshawl (pdf)

vinesandhooks This textile can be located in the Ashmolean Museum. Details can be found in the post A diagonal embroidery with hooks and vines.
vinesandhooks (PDF)

ashmoleanlinkedquatrefoilssash This textile is currently in the Ashmolean Museum. Details can be found in the post Possible turban or sash.
ashmoleanlinkdquatrefoilssash (pdf)

ashmoleanlozengegrid

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Details can be seen in the post A grid of lozenges embroidery.
ashmoleanlozengegrid (pdf)

2006AP0988 This embroidery sampler is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Details can be seen in the post A mixed sampler in the V&A Museum. The textile layout- vandamixedsamplerlayout
vandamixedsamplerpattern1 (pdf)
vandamixedsampler2 (pdf)
vandamixedsampler3 (pdf)
vandamixedsampler4 (pdf)
vandamixedsampler5 (pdf)
vandamixedsampler6 (pdf)
vandamixedsampler7 (pdf)

ashmoleanoctogon This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Details can be seen in the post An octagon medallion embroidery.
ashmoleanoctagon (pdf)

ashmoleandiagonalgrid

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. More details can be found in the post A textile with a diagonal grid embroidery.
ashmoleandiagonalgrid (pdf)

ashmoleantunic1 This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. More details can be found in the post The first possible tunic embroidery.
ashmoleantunic1 (pdf)

textilecanada1 This textile is in the Textile Museum of Canada. More details on the textile can be found at the post The Second possible tunic embroidery.
textilemusofcantunic (pdf)

ashmoleantunic2
This textile is currently in the Ashmolean Museum. More details can be found at the post A third possible tunic embroidery.
ashmoleantunic2 (pdf)

ashmoleantreesandtiraz This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Details can be found in the post A fourth possible shirt embroidery.
ashmoleantreesandtiraz (pdf)

ashmoleantunic5

This textile is currently in the Ashmolean Museum. Details can be found at the post A fifth embroidered tunic.
ashmoleantunic5 PDF

ashmoleanchevron This particular textile can be found in the Ashmolean Museum. More details can be found at the post A possible sleeve embroidery.
ashmoleanchevron (PDF)

ashmoleanpatterndarningsampler This textile can be found in the Ashmolean Museum. More details can be found on the post “A new pattern darning and cross stitch sampler”.
The placing can be seen here- ashmoleanpatterndarningsamplerplacement
ashmoleanpatterndarning1 (PDF)
ashmoleanpatterndarning2 (PDF)
ashmoleanpatterndarning3 (PDF)
ashmoleanpatterndarning4 (PDF)
ashmoleanpatterndarning5 (PDF)
ashmoleanlacrossstitch (PDF)

ashmoleantriangle This embroidered textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. More details can be found on post “A new long arm cross stitch”.
ashmoleantriangle (PDF)

 ashmoleanslantedpatterndarning

This embroidered textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. For more information please see post “A pattern darned textile”.
ashmoleanslantingpatterndarning PDF

ashmoleancontinuouss

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. For more information please read post “A new pattern darning chart”.
ashmoleancontinuouss PDF

ashmoleaneightpointedstar

This embroidered textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read the post “A new complex double running embroidery” for more information.

ashmoleaneightpointstar PDF

ashmoleanquartrefoilsandsquares

This embroidered textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. More information can be read in the post An embroidery once more.

ashmoleanquartrefoilsandsquares PDF

ashmoleanchevronsanddiamonds

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read  A new embroidery chart with chevrons and diamond shapes for more information.

ashmoleanchevronanddiamonds PDF

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read post “Sn embroidery of interlacing chevrons and Maltese crosses” for more information.
ashmoleaninterlacingchevronsandcrosses PDF

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read post “A double running cotton embroidery” for more information.
ashmoleandiamondsandtriangles

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read post “A textile embroidered with quatrefoils and stems“.
ashmoleanquartrefoilsandstems PDF

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read post “Textile embroidered with pink and blue quatrefoils” for more information.
ashmoleanquartrefoilsandstems PDF

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. More more information please read post “Textile embroidered with pink and blue quatrefoils“.
ashmoleanblueandpinkquatrefoils PDF

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read post “A textile with crosses in diamonds” for more information.
ashmoleancrossesindiamonds PDF

This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum.
ashmoleanbirdsalternating PDF
This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum.
ashmoleanleftfacingbirds PDF
This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum.
ashmoleanrightfacingbirds PDF
This textile is in the Ashmolean Museum. Please read post “Many birds!” for more information on the four textiles.
ashmoleandoublebirds PDF

This textile is 12 cm by 17.5cm and thought to have been made between the 10th-15th century. It is tabby woven linen embroidered in double running blue flax thread. For more information please read the post “Back for this year!”. The textile is currently in the Ashmolean Museum.
ashmoleanchevronsandtrefoils PDF

This textile is 33cm by 17.5 cm wide and thought to have been made in Egypt between the 13th-15th century. The fabric is plain woven linen embroidered in double running blue or black silk. More information can be read in the post “A new zigzag embroidery”. The textile is in the Textile Museum of Canada
tmczigzag PDF

This textile is 21 cm by 18.5 cm. The plain woven tabby linen has been embroidered in double running blue and brown silk. Made in Egypt between the 10th-15th century. For more information please read the post “A wave embroidery”. The textile is in the Ashmolean Museum.
ashmoleanwave PDF

19 comments on “Embroidery charts

  1. Maria Soledad Vara Gonzalez says:

    Fantástico trabajo

  2. marlie says:

    extraordinaire : merci !

  3. absolutely lovely! thank you for this.

  4. Didier says:

    Hello i have a nice tiraz abbasid but i dont know How to send picture for your comment

  5. Neil Madle says:

    Can I send a photo of Egyptian/Persian sampler/embroidery to you to tell me what I have got and it’s historical value and it’s actual value(if anything) please ? Neil

  6. Neil Madle says:

    Looking on Google images seems my embroidery is possibly Greek Islands as it the closest I have seen thanks to your suggestion. It is similar but yet to see characters the same only patterns. Neil

  7. Tashia Dare says:

    I’m currently working on a publication on Coptic textiles. You have an image of four tunics in black and white that I would like to include in my piece. Can you tell me where you obtained the image? Thank you.

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