Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, and squares
Details
-
Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, and squares
-
Associated place
-
Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in blue and white flax
-
Material index
-
Technique index
-
Object type
-
Dimensions
29.5 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
-
Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
-
Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.97
Our online collection is being continually updated. Find out more
-
Catalogue text
Rosettes, irregular stars, dots, and clusters of four squares, as in Cat. no. 88 [EA1990.96]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The remains of a seam are at one edge of the fragment. It seams to be a French seam, but its purpose here is not clear; it could also have been an intake of fabric, to create a pleat. This possibility is suggested by the presence of sewing fibre further along this edge 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. 89 on p. 24 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 24 fig. 89
Reference URL
