Textile fragment with flowers and vines, possibly from a pillow or sash
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and vines, possibly from a pillow or sash
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Associated place
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Date
possibly late 19th century -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed, mordant-dyed red, and dyed black and green; with stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
64 x 60 cm (length x width)
64 x 120 cm max. (warp x weft) -
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.
EA1990.1197
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Catalogue text
A large textile, plain with a wide border of separate flower bunches, as well as framing bands with continuous vines and red flowers.
The textile has been folded lengthwise and sewn together at the fringed end, possibly to be used as a pillow. The measurements for the fabric, as it appears now, are 2 x 64 cm. x 60 cm. The textile was probably made to be used originally as a waist sash, patka, a standard element of Indian costume. Late 19th century?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. 1193 on p. 361 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 361 fig. 1193
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