Textile fragment with stripes

Title

Textile fragment with stripes
Associated place

Egypt (possible) (possible place of creation)

Syria (possible) (possible place of creation)
Date

before 1990
Material and technique

cotton, dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

3.3 x 2.9 cm max. (length x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.549.a

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Catalogue text

This additional textile fragment was found on the reverse of another fragment [EA1990.549] during conservation [provenance unknown]; it is very small, cotton, s-spun, with white lines against a blue ground.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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