Textile fragment with interlocking circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking circles
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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 resist, and mordant-dyed red, with traces of brown or purple; with stitching in blue flax and repair stitching in brown cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 16 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.
EA1990.392
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of interlocking circles made up from dots, with a larger dot in the centre of each; the pattern can also be read as linked quatrefoils, an ambiguity the design has in common with Cat. no. 1092 [EA1990.1099]. The pattern is white against a red background.
Blue stitching along one side, as well as mending with brown thread. The large dots at the centre of the circles were dyed brownish purple, with a mordant addition that has destroyed the fibre in these areas. The reverse is more heavily saturated with dye than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used to produce the red was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. In addition, the analysis revealed traces of indigotin in the brown or purple areas.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. 364 on p. 108 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 108 fig. 364
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