Textile fragment with grid of squares and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of squares and rosettes
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of a seam in white flax, and with additional stitching in blue and white flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 20.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 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.
EA1990.609
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Catalogue text
A wide band with a grid of squares, made by diagonal, brown lines of small, linked crosses, and with a red or brown rosette inside each square. The design is red and brown against a white ground, and one row of squares is filled with red. On either side of the band is a narrow, brown band with white rosettes. The entire design is similar to Cat. no. 564 [EA1990.571].
There is a selvedge, and remains of a seam along one side. Additional blue and white stitching is also present. The reverse is less 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. 602 on pp. 177-178 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 177 fig. 602
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