Textile fragment with vine, trefoils, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine, trefoils, and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant and resist, and dyed red and blue; joined with a rolled seam 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
16 x 23.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 15 / 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.
EA1990.1056
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Catalogue text
A band with a large, continuous vine and red trefoils and flowers. The ground is white with a narrow, blue border containing a line of white dots. A similar dotted line fills parts of the vine. The band is set against a solid red background. In addition there is the beginning of a blue and white pattern.
A carefully sewn rolled seam joins the two fragments along their selvedges. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface, especially 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. 1049 on p. 312 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 312 fig. 1049
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