Textile fragment from a garment with parrots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment from a garment with parrots
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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 with mordant, dyed red and brown, and dyed blue; additional piece of silk; joined with stitching in flax; with remains of stitching in silk
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Object type
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Dimensions
34 x 26 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 21 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.
EA1990.1097
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Catalogue text
A continuous design field with red and blue parrots on a white ground. The parrots are partly filled with white dots and tendrils.
Remains of stitching follows one curving side of the fragment, clearly once part of tailoring the fabric. The stitches are of silk, and there is a very small piece of silk fabric sewn onto the fragment with a flax thread.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. 1090 on p. 326 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 326 fig. 1090
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