Textile fragment with bands of vines and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of vines and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed brown, purple, and red; with remains of stitching in silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30.5 x 26 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 13 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.
EA1990.1156
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of alternating white and purple stripes. The white stripes each contain a continuous vine with small red flowers, while the purple bands have large red dots or flowers.
Selvedge with the remains of silk thread. 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. 1151 on pp. 348-349 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 348 fig. 1151
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