Textile fragment probably imitating patola pattern, with diamond-shapes and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment probably imitating patola pattern, with diamond-shapes and squares
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Associated place
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Date
late 15th century - early 16th century -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 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.
EA1990.1026
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Catalogue text
Red, blue, and white diamonds with stepped borders and connected by red squares.
Surface and reverse show an equal saturation of dyes, so that it is not possible to determine their application. The design apparently imitates the ikat designs and technique of patola, as in Cat. no. 1018 [EA1990.1025].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. 1019 on p. 302 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 302 fig. 1019 & vol. i pl. 38
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