Textile fragment with S-shapes, circles, and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes, circles, and stars
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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 remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 21 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.
EA1990.23
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Catalogue text
S-shapes, circles, and stars with blue centres, arranged to form squares. The s-shapes are the sides, the circles the corners, and the stars the centre of each square. Every second row of s-shapes is reversed. The reserve creates the design, the background is blue.
Remains of stitching. Overlapping and a change in the direction of s-shapes define two sides of the printing block.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. 15 on p. 4 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 4 fig. 15
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