Textile fragment with arches, plants, and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches, plants, 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 mordant, dyed red and brown, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in blue and beige flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 19.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 19 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.
EA1990.1071
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Catalogue text
A band of pointed arches, each with a red plant inside. The arches have brown outlines and are white or blue inside. The band is followed by two narrow bands, one white with blue or red rosettes, the other red with linked stars. In addition there isthe beginning of a large red, white, and blue design, possibly with serrated leaves.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for both red and brown, but more saturation for the blue. Two single stitches.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. 1064 on p. 316 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 316 fig. 1064
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