Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked chevrons 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
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed brown; joined with a seam in blue cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 20 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.
EA1990.292
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Catalogue text
Elaborate chevron design; the tip of each chevron has a trefoil added, as in Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30]. The design is reversible and can be read as either red against white, or white against red.
A seam made with blue stitching. The direction of the design is set at right angles to each other in the two fragments. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 283 on p. 85 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 85, vol. ii p. 85 fig. 283
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