Textile fragment with circles and tabs
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles and tabs
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Associated place
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Date
17th century (1601 - 1700) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed brown, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in white flax, blue cotton, and yellow silk, and a repair seam in white flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
46 x 46.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
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.
EA1990.1085
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Catalogue text
A design field with red circles that have beaded surrounds and are set into a grid of smaller, red circles. The small circles each have a rosette of five white dots. A red band with white rosettes is at both selvedges. At one end is a band with linked diamonds followed by five tabs, as in Cat. no. 1066 [EA1990.1073].
Two selvedges, with stitching along both, as well as a mending seam. The latter is sewn with a z-twist flax thread. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The tabs are identical to one found at the Nubian site Qasr Ibrim. Radiocarbon analysis has given a date of 1555 CE+/- 55.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. 1078 on p. 321 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 322, vol. ii p. 321 fig. 1078 & vol. i pl. 11
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