Textile fragment with tendrils, hearts, and tab-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, hearts, and tab-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 / 14 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
not on display
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1005
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Catalogue text
A continuous design field of tendrils, heart shapes, and small tab shapes, slightly haphazard in arrangement. The patterns are defined by white and partly filled in with blue; the background is red.
Selvedge. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 998 on p. 296 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 296 fig. 998
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