Textile fragment with squares, arches, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, arches, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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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
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23.5 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 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.
EA1990.644
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Catalogue text
Squares of bandhani imitation, as in Cat. no. 622 [EA1990.629], white against a red ground; on either side a narrow band with small arches and a row of discs, white against a brown ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 638 on p. 188 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 188 fig. 638
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