Textile fragment with Arabic-style script, dots, and stylized leaves or trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with Arabic-style script, dots, and stylized leaves or trees
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 12th century (1101 - 1200) -
Material and technique
possibly cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16.5 x 16 cm max. (warp x weft)
9 / 12 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.
EA1990.149
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Catalogue text
Band with inscription, lines of dots on either side, and a row of stylized leaves or trees. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge and some stitching. The inscription is derived from Arabic, but it is not readable. For further comment see Cat. no. 140 [EA1990.148]. 12th century?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. 141 on p. 38 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 38 fig. 141
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