Textile fragment with squares, diamond-shapes, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, diamond-shapes, 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
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
6 x 18.5 cm (warp x weft)
21 / 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.
EA1990.526
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Catalogue text
A band of squares filled alternatively with diamond shapes and eight-petalled flowers. A narrow band with an undulating vine and separate leaves is on either side of it. The pattern outlines are white, the squares are filled with red, and the background is brown.
A selvedge; the band is at right angles to it. The reverse is more saturated with dye than the surface.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. 519 on p. 154 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 154 fig. 519
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