Textile fragment with bands of flowers and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of flowers 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, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
44 x 35.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 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.
EA1990.1092
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Catalogue text
A very wide series of bands, most of them made up of white dots on a red or blue ground. One band has eight-petalled flowers placed into squares defined by dotted outlines. There is the beginning of a continuous design with large and small white dots on a blue ground. The large dots also have red details.
The reverse shows very slightly more dye saturation than the surface.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. 1085 on p. 324 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 324-325, vol. ii p. 324 fig. 1085
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