Textile fragment with tab-shapes, trefoils, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tab-shapes, trefoils, and dots
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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, and applied with grey; with remains of stitching in blue cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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.
EA1990.445
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Catalogue text
Three tab shapes, each with a trefoil inside and filled with dots; the pattern is grey against a white background, and within the tabs the design is white.
Remains of a row of blue stitching. There is very little dye penetration to the reverse.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. 438 on p. 129 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 129 fig. 438
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