Textile fragment with bands of linked flowers and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of linked flowers and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
probably early 20th century -
Material and technique
cotton, printed and dyed purple, green, brown, and yellow; with remains of stitching 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
41 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 22 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.
EA1990.1230
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Catalogue text
Bands of stylized, linked purple flowers and green leaves on a white ground, as well as a white braided design on a purple ground. Yellow stripes are set between.
Selvedge and the remains of stitching. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fabric is probably early 20th century. It was not recorded in the first survey of the collection.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. 1224 on p. 371 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 371 fig. 1224
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