Textile fragment with branches and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with branches and leaves
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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 mordant, dyed brown, possibly painted with mordant, and dyed red; joined with a seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 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.
EA1990.821
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of long, naturalistic branches, brown on a white ground, with red leaves emerging. The background is filled with brown dots.
A seam at one edge conseals a selvedge and adds a very thin second strip of fabric with the same design. The sewing is finely done. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. While the mordant for the brown design has certainly been stamped, the mordant for the red was possibly painted.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. 819 on p. 241 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 241 fig. 819
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