Textile fragment with grid of flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of flowers
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Associated place
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Date
late 18th century - early 19th century -
Material and technique
cotton, with a narrow band of red weft, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
85.5 x 47.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 11 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.
EA1990.896
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of small oval ?leaves, outlined in brown, and small red quatrefoils, all linked into a grid design with a larger red flower in the centre of each section. The background is natural white.
Selvedge and stitching. A narrow band of red weft is woven into the fabric. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 890 on p. 262 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 262 fig. 890
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