Textile fragment with bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with a seam 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
54 x 41 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 21 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 x 9 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.56
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Catalogue text
A grid of dots that imitate bandhani, with an eight-petalled rosette in the centre of each square, as in Cat. no. 46 [EA1990.54]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
A small fragment is attached with a carefully sewn seam. The size of the block used was 12.5 cm. x 9 cm.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. 48 on p. 13 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 13 fig. 48
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