Textile fragment with rosettes, lobed squares, and dots
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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
four pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with seams, including run-and-fell, in white flax; with a rolled hem in blue cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28.5 x 22 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 21 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4, along length/width 21 / 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.
EA1990.125
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Catalogue text
Eight-petalled rosettes, lobed squares with blue centre, and single dots, as in Cat. no. 80 [EA1990.88]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Stitching, with three seams and a rolled hem. While some of the sewing is quite fine, e.g. the rolled hem and the run-and-fell seam, other stitching is apparently done for crude mending. There are four fragments altogether.
[Additional thread counts are: (b) 18x24, (c)21x20, (d)21x18.]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. 117 on pp. 31-32 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 31 fig. 117
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