Textile fragment with reversed S-shapes, rosettes, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with reversed S-shapes, rosettes, and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with repair stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.21
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Catalogue text
Reversed s-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes with central dots, and four-petalled flowers, arranged as a continuous design of squares, similar to Cat. no. 3 [EA1990.11]. In addition there is a narrow band of zigzag, and part of a wider band with irregular vegetative forms. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Stitching, probably recent, to hold the fragment together. Overlapping in design defines the block length or width as 11 cm.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. 13 on p. 4 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 4 fig. 13
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