Textile fragment with two warriors
On display
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with two warriors
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Associated place
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Date
13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed 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
28.5 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
22 / 20 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
First floor | Gallery 28 | Asian Crossroads -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.1010
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Catalogue text
Two large circles, one filled with white and red dots, the other with white petals on a red ground. Some leaves and lines of red and white dots also appear, but otherwise the design is uncertain. The background is blue.
Selvedge, and remains of stitching along it.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. 1003 on p. 297 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 297 fig. 1003
