Textile fragment with vine and palmette leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine and palmette leaves
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with 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
31 x 10.5 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 17 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.
EA1990.1044
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Catalogue text
A blue border band with a large, red and white continuous vine and palmette leaves. A solid red band is on either side of it.
Selvedge parallel to the border band. The reverse shows slightly more red and blue 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. 1037 on p. 308 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 312, vol. ii p. 308 fig. 1037
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