Textile fragment with stepped squares, linked by Maltese crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stepped squares, linked by Maltese crosses
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Associated place
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Date
17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
22 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 22 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.
EA1990.480
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of stepped squares, the inside red with a small square at the centre, and linked to each other by Maltese crosses. The design has white outlines against a brown background, but is filled with brown or red.
Remains of stitches along one edge. The reverse is very slightly blurred. A similar fragment has been found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 56). The dye analysis has shown that both shades of red and brown were produced by using an alizarin and purpurin colorant, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. 17th or 16th century; C-14 dating gave a date of 1690 CE+/-90.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. 473 on p. 142 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 142, 153, & 164, vol. ii p. 142 fig. 473 & vol. i pl. 8
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