Textile fragment with rosettes, lobed squares, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, lobed squares, and dots
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with stitching in blue and white flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
11.5 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 17 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 16 / 13 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.
EA1990.122
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Catalogue text
Eight-petalled rosettes with a dot in the centre, lobed squares, and small, single dots arranged as a regular, continuous pattern, as in Cat. no. 80 [EA1990.88]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge, remains of blue and white stitching.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. 114 on p. 31 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 31 fig. 114
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