Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
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Associated place
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Date
13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and probably brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
78 x 53 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 13 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.
EA1990.305
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Catalogue text
The large fragment has a continuous pattern of interlocking spirals, identical to Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297], as well as a border with bands of chevrons.
C-14 analysis dates the textile to 1255 CE +/- 55. Selvedge. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The main design field is dyed red only, but two of the narrow border bands were apparently dyed brown.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. 296 on p. 88 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 86-89 & 150-151, vol. ii p. 88 fig. 296 & vol. i pl. 14
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