Textile fragment with bands of vine and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of vine and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; joined with a seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
37 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 13 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 12 / 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.
EA1990.385
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands with a continuous vine and leaves attached, red on white, alternate with bands of the same width, which have small separate flowers or leaves, white on a red ground.
The fragment is sewn together from two pieces; on both the seam moves along a selvedge. The dye does not penetrate the reverse.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. 383 on p. 113 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 113 fig. 383
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