Textile fragment with linked tendrils and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked tendrils and flower-heads
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; with stitching in blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 8 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 18 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.
EA1990.407
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Catalogue text
Linked tendrils with small circles attached as leaves and flowerheads, as Cat. no. 399 [EA1990.406]. Red on white ground.
Selvedge, with a row of blue stitching close to it, as in the previous fragment [EA1990.406]. The two fragments may have been part of the same fabric; see also Cat. no. 401 [EA1990.408]. The reverse shows considerably 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. 400 on p. 118 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 118-119, vol. ii p. 118 fig. 400
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