Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and leaves
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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, dyed red and brown, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.909
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Catalogue text
A wide design of red and blue interlacing tendrils and leaves, with faint outlines of flowers. This is followed by a narrow band of brown chevrons and another band of red, white, and blue stars set into square compartments.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for both red and brown, but more blue 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. 903 on p. 268 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 268 fig. 903
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