Textile fragment with dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dots
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (possibly by hand), and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18.5 x 17.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 10 / 10 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
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.102
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Catalogue text
Regular pattern of dots. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Unusually coarse thread and loose weave. There is no evidence of block repeat, and the dots might have been applied by hand. Despite its simplicity, the pattern is unique in the collection.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. 94 on p. 25 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 25 fig. 94
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