Textile fragment with squares and stepped squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares and stepped squares
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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, and dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in white and blue flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
36 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 13 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.
EA1990.731
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Catalogue text
A field of large squares with stepped squares inside, and with small rosettes at the centre. These squares are linked by small squares with a beaded border and a rosette at the centre, and diamond shapes are set between. The pattern is red and brown with white outlines against a red background.
Very small remains of white and blue stitching. The reverse is slightly less saturated with dye than the surface.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. 724 on p. 213 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 213 fig. 724
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