Textile fragment with linked squares, tendrils, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked squares, tendrils, and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with a flat seam in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
total 25.9 x 25.8 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1 19.8 x 14.8 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 2 25.9 x 6 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 17 / 17 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.
EA1990.710
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of linked brown squares and red rectangles; the larger squares are filled with white tendrils, the smaller ones with a very small brown quatrefoil at the centre of an ornate square frame. The red rectangles each have two trefoils attached to the narrow ends.
Sewn together from two pieces, both with a selvedge. A flat seam with large stitches. The reverse shows less 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. 703 on p. 207 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 207 fig. 703
Audinet, Karthika, ‘Fustat Fragments: Indian Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection’, Textiles Asia Journal, 10, Issue 3, (January 2019), fig. 9 on p. 25
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