Textile fragment with flowers and cross-hatching
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and cross-hatching
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Associated place
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Date
19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with a rolled hem in flax, and a repair seam in cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
63 x 50.5 cm (warp x weft)
10 / 10 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.
EA1990.894
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Catalogue text
A large square covering the width of the textile, with a red border, then a wide frame of brown, linked quatrefoils, and at the centre four red rectangles with white cross-hatching and a rectangle with brown and white chevrons. The fabric is similar to Cat. no. 887 [EA1990.893].
Two selvedges. At one end is a rolled hem sewn with a flax thread. Down the centre is a mending seam, using cotton. 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. 888 on p. 261 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 261 fig. 888
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