Textile fragment with vines, rosettes, and diamond-shapes
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Title
Textile fragment with vines, rosettes, and diamond-shapes
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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 a flat seam in white flax; with additional stitching in black thread, possibly cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
45 x 31.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.139
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands of running vine and separate leaves, and of eight-petalled rosettes alternating with diamond shapes, as in Cat. no. 129 [EA1990.137]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Flat seam with white stitching, and additional black stitching which might be recent.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. 131 on p. 35 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 35 fig. 131
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