Textile fragment with bands of squares, diamond-shapes, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of squares, diamond-shapes, and rosettes
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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, mordant-dyed brown, and possibly painted with blue dye
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 26.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 20 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.
EA1990.926
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Catalogue text
A band of brown squares and diamonds, each containing a white, eight-petalled rosette; the diamond is set against a light blue background. The band has borders of rows of dots on either side; these are brown on blue and white on brown. These are followed by a narrow, brown band with a white continuous vine with separate leaves.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands. The surface and reverse show an equal dye saturation. There is no evidence of resist applied, and the blue was possibly not applied by immersion. The textile has also been published by Varadarajan (1983: 11, fig. 3).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. 920 on p. 273 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 273-274, vol. ii p. 273 fig. 920
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