Textile fragment with birds and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with birds and tendrils
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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 resist-dyed 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
41.5 x 26.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 16 x 9 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.1147
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Catalogue text
A continuous design field covered with tendrils defined by red outlines on a light blue ground. Small red and white birds sit in their branches.
The fabric is very finely woven, and in general the mordant has saturated the reverse as much as the surface. However, in some details the reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 16 cm. x 9 cm.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. 1141 on p. 345 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 345 fig. 1141
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