Textile fragment with squares, rosettes, and a diamond-shape
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, rosettes, and a diamond-shape
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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, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching, possibly 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
5.5 x 10.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 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.
EA1990.159
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Catalogue text
A band of three squares, two filled with an eight-petalled rosette, one with a diamond-shape containing dots arranged as a small six-petalled rosette, surrounded by beaded design. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge and remains of stitching.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. 151 on p. 41 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 56-57, vol. ii p. 41 fig. 151
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