Textile fragment with dots arranged in bands and ovals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dots arranged in bands and ovals
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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 (probably 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
37.5 x 22 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 16 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.
EA1990.67
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Catalogue text
Dots are arranged in a series of wide and narrow bands at right angles to each other. Remains of a centre field with motif of six dots arranged in ovals.
The resist may have been applied by hand.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. 59 on p. 16 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 16 fig. 59
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