Textile fragment with floral patterns, leaves, and interlace
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with floral patterns, leaves, and interlace
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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, and applied with grey; with remains of stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 / 12 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.
EA1990.454
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Catalogue text
Wide bands at right angles to each other, with elaborate floral and leaf designs, and some interlacing in the adjacent fragmentary design field. The pattern is light against a grey background.
Selvedge and remains of stitching. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 447 on p. 131 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 131 fig. 447
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