Textile fragment with bunches of flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bunches of flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably late 19th century -
Material and technique
cotton, printed and dyed dark-blue, green, red, and yellow
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
160 x 81 cm (warp x weft)
13 / 13 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.
EA1990.1226
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Catalogue text
A large textile with a continuous design field of diagonally arranged bunches of red flowers with green leaves against a dark blue background. Along the selvedges are narrow borders filled with small flowers.
Two selvedges. The textile is woven from fine thread, and dye saturation is equal on surface and reverse. It is probably a late 19th-century fabric, of Indian origin.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. 1220 on p. 369 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 370, vol. ii p. 369 fig. 1220
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