Textile fragment with leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with 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, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with a seam in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 19 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.
EA1990.1112
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Catalogue text
Single, blue leaves outlined by white dots, and surrounded by separate red leaves. The background is blue.
There is a seam near one side of the fragment. The reverse shows more 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. 1105 on p. 330 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 330 fig. 1105
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