Textile fragment with stars, circles, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stars, circles, and 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, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
44 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 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.
EA1990.114
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Catalogue text
Stars and circles with dark blue centres, single dots. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Light and dark blue is used. A rolled hem along the length of the fragment.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. 106 on p. 29 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 139, 333, & 335, vol. ii p. 29 fig. 106
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