Textile fragment with leaves, squares, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves, 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
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; joined with a double seam in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, 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.
EA1990.810
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Catalogue text
Two fragments, one with large tendrils and leaves, as in Cat. no. 807 [EA1990.809], the other made up from narrow rows of diamond shapes and dots, and a band of squares with different rosettes inside. The larger patterns have white outlines against a red ground, with some details in brown.
A carefully sewn double seam holds both fragments together; it is curious that the reverse of one fragment is sewn to the surface of the other. The reverse is slightly 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. 808 on p. 238 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 238 fig. 808
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