Textile fragment with flowers, cable pattern, stylized plants, and Arabic inscription
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, cable pattern, stylized plants, and Arabic inscription
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 12th century (1101 - 1200)
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171) -
Material and technique
three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; joined with a seams in blue thread, possibly flax, and white cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
total 30 x 32 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 20 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 20 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 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.
EA1990.666
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of five-petalled flowers separated by bands with a cable pattern, and a row of stylized plants; the design is white on red. Between the two rows of cable pattern is a single, narrow band with an inscription, white on brown.
The fragment is made up from three pieces, one of which has a selvedge. One seam is sewn with a blue ?flax thread, the other with white cotton. The reverses of the seams are on the surface of the textile. The design is more clearly defined on the surface, with additional dye saturation on the reverse. The original card has a transcription of the Arabic, and translates it as 'Glory, prosperity and welfare to the owner'. It comments that it is Fatimid, and is signed 'Lamm'. The textile may be 12th century.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. 659 on p. 194 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 194 fig. 659
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