Textile fragment with rosettes, serrated crosses, stars, and dots
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, serrated crosses, stars, 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 with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with a stitch in blue thread, probably cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.525
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Catalogue text
A variety of bands, diagonal and at right angles to each other, with rosettes as in Cat. no. 511 [EA1990.518], the snowflake pattern of Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43], and stars and dots. The pattern is white against a red or brown background.
A single blue stitch remains in the fragment. There also seem to be traces of blue dye on the fragment. The reverse is heavily saturated with dye.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. 518 on p. 154 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 154 fig. 518
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