Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, and squares with rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, and squares with rosettes
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18.5 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 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.
EA1990.210
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Catalogue text
Parallel bands, one of diamond shapes with a small four-lobed ring inside, lined on either side by a running s-shape, as in Cat. no. 150 [EA1990.158]; the other with squares filled with different rosette shapes and framed by a row of dots, similar to Cat. no. 151 [EA1990.159]. Fragmentary design of large rosettes, and at right angles to the bands a row of running s-shapes, possibly the beginning of a band as the one of diamonds above. The resist generally defines the pattern, the background is blue.
The surface shows much indigo dye in the resist areas, and the back is heavily saturated.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. 202 on pp. 56-57 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 56 fig. 202
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