Textile fragment with stylized trees and arches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees and arches
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed dark-blue; with remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11 x 39 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 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.
EA1990.942
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Catalogue text
A band of stylized trees alternating with arches. The trees have red trunks and a white trefoil emerging on either side at the top; the arches have a red niche at the centre and the arch defined by a white pearl border that is four rows deep. The background is dark blue.
Selvedge at right angle to the band. Remains of stitching appear in a red part of the fragment parallel to the band. The reverse shows more dye saturation 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. 936 on p. 278 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 278 fig. 936
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