Textile fragment with bands of flowers, possibly from a garment
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of flowers, possibly from a garment
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; with stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
54 x 23 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 9 / 9 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.
EA1990.389
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Catalogue text
Alternating bands of white flowers on red and small red shapes, possibly flower-heads, on white ground.
Stitching around a regularly cut, rectangular edge, as though for the collar opening of a garment. The reverse shows considerably less 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. 387 on p. 115 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 115 fig. 387
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