Textile fragment with interlocking spirals or rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking spirals or rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 16.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 16 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.
EA1990.512
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Catalogue text
Interlocking spirals or rosettes, as in Cat. no. 502 [EA1990.509], with an additional narrow band of chevrons. The design can be read as white on a red ground, or as red on a white ground. There are additional brown highlights.
Selvedge. The reverse is more saturated with dye than the surface. Possibly 13th century; see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305 on p. 88].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. 505 on p. 150 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 150 fig. 505
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