Textile fragment with flowers or stars, trefoils, and circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers or stars, trefoils, and 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, applied with mordant (probably by hand), dyed red and pink, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27.5 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 37 / 50 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.
EA1990.957
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Catalogue text
Two large fragmentary patterns are divided by two bands, one with a row of red flowers or stars on white, the other with small trefoils and clusters of three circles alternating with pink or white discs and two leaves emerging from each.
The fabric of the fragment is extremely fine and closely woven. The design apparently was not stamped, but drawn by hand.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. 951 on p. 282 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 282 fig. 951
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