Textile fragment with Arabic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with Arabic inscription
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Associated place
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Date
probably 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with remains of stitching, possibly in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 19.5 cm (warp x weft)
15 / 14 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.
EA1990.378
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Catalogue text
A wide band of script and a narrow band of cable pattern, white against a red background.
Selvedge and remains of stitching. The outlines of the design are slightly blurred on the reverse. The script cannot be read but is probably of 15th-century date.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. 376 on p. 112 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 112 fig. 376
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