Textile fragment with tendril and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendril and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with remains of 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
4 x 6.5 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 18 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.
EA1990.806
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Catalogue text
A very small fragment of a border with a tendril and leaf as in Cat. no. 794 [EA1990.801]. The design is white on brown ground, with red filling the leaf and providing the background outside the border band.
Selvedge with remains of stitching. The reverse is slightly more saturated with dye than the surface. Possibly 15th century; see radiocarbon result of Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804].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. 804 on p. 236 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 236 fig. 804
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