Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, dots, and crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, dots, and crosses
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 22.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 12 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.
EA1990.485
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of rosettes, stars, dots, crosses, each with a white outline against a red background. The pattern elements themselves are brown, usually with a red centre.
It seems that both a resist (for the white outlines) and a mordant were stamped onto the fabric, and the cloth was than immersed in a mordant-dye solution. The reverse is largely covered with traces of red.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. 478 on p. 143 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 143 fig. 478
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