Textile fragment with stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees
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Associated place
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Date
probably late 19th century -
Material and technique
cotton, printed and dyed yellow, green, red, brown, and light-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
210 x 106 cm (warp x weft)
13 / 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.
EA1990.1228
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Catalogue text
A very large textile with a continuous design of stylized trees, each dyed green, red, and light blue, with brown outlines. The trees are arranged in diagonal rows against a yellow background. Narrow borders with small flowers are set along both selvedges.
Two selvedges. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The textile is probably of late 19th-century date and has an Indian origin.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. 1222 on p. 370 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 370 fig. 1222
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