Textile fragment with chevrons, flowers, and snowflakes

Title

Textile fragment with chevrons, flowers, and snowflakes
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with a run-and-fell seam in flax, and with a hem in flax
Material index

cotton;

flax
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

mordant dyed;

stitched
Object type

textile
Dimensions

22 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.705

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Catalogue text

Two pieces with different patterns; one has large chevrons, alternating between red and brown and filled with tendrils and small flowers, the other has white snowflakes on a red ground.The larger textile is rectangular and has a hem and selvedge. The two fragments are sewn together with a flat (run-and-fell) seam. 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)

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