Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with inverted hooks

Title

Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with inverted hooks
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

21.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.75

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Catalogue text

Bandhani imitation, arranged as bands of stars and inverted hook motifs separated by three rows of bandhani dots, as in Cat. no. 66 [EA1990.74]. The resist defines the pattern.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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