Textile fragment with stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 15 cm (warp x weft)
22 / 21 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.
EA1990.1124
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of stylized, red plants, their heads encircled by white lines, surrounded by tendrils on a blue background, similar to Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120]. The plants are larger here and slightly less abstract.
Selvedge. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. There is no evidence of block repeat, and the resist was apparently drawn by hand. A similar fragment was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990).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. 1117 on p. 335 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 336, vol. ii p. 335 fig. 1117
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