Textile fragment with flowers and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and trefoils
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching, probably in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 18 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.
EA1990.1021
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Catalogue text
A wide band with two eight-petalled, red and white flowers and two trefoils. The background is blue. Along one side of the band is a narrow, red band with two white, interlaced vines and a border of brown dots.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red, but slightly more for the blue.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. 1014 on p. 301 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 301 fig. 1014
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