Textile fragment with rosettes, lobed squares, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation

Title

Textile fragment with rosettes, lobed squares, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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

28 x 23 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 25 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.

EA1990.79

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Catalogue text

Two wide bands, and fragments of two further. One band has the same bandhani imitation as Cat. no. 65 [EA1990.73], including arrow shapes. The second wide band has eight-petalled rosettes with a dot at the centre, lobed squares, and small, single dots, arranged in a linear, regular manner. The fragments of bands are both in bandhani-imitation. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.

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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