Textile fragment with interlace based on script, and cable pattern
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace based on script, and cable pattern
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 16 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.
EA1990.380
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Catalogue text
A narrow band of cable pattern and a border of interlace; the design continues on the following fragment, Cat. no. 379 [EA1990.381]. It is white set against a reddish brown background.
The outlines of the design are slightly blurred on the reverse. The interlace design is inspired by script. Similar patterns can be seen on 15th-century metalwork from Syria and Iraq.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. 378 on p. 112 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 112 fig. 378
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