Textile fragment with plants and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plants 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
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 11 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
blocks 15 x 9 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.991
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Catalogue text
Fine, white lines link into plant shapes, with red leaves attached. Delicate, brown lines create ornate zigzag designs. The background is light blue.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red and brown, but considerably more for the blue. The size of blocks used was 15 cm. x 9 cm.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. 985 on p. 292 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 292 fig. 985
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