Textile fragment with quatrefoils and groups of four arrows
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils and groups of four arrows
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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 resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching 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
13 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
block 5.5 x 5.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.134
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Catalogue text
Two types of symmetric flowers; one a quatrefoil with a square at the centre and petals made up from lotus leaf shapes, the other four arrows facing each other. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
The block probably centres on the quatrefoil and has an arrow in each corner, which combine to create the second flower. In this case, the block would have been square and measured 5.5 cm. x 5.5 cm. Remnants of very thick thread.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. 126 on p. 34 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 41, vol. ii p. 34 fig. 126
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