Textile fragment with flowers and ribbons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and ribbons
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
cotton, machine woven and printed, and dyed red, blue, and purple
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33.5 x 13 cm (length x width)
along length/width 32 / 31 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.
EA1990.1216
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Catalogue text
Delicate blue and purple flowers encircled by red ribbons, on a white ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fabric was machine woven and printed.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. 1212 on p. 366 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 366 fig. 1212
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