Textile fragment with dotted vine and row of dots

Title

Textile fragment with dotted vine and row of dots
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed light-blue and dark-blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

29 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.233

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Catalogue text

A band of lines, dots, and a beaded vine in the centre, and a second band set at an angle to it. The latter has a single row of dots in the centre; it probably corresponds to the position of the similar band in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219] and divides rows of large arched petals. Fragments of arches, as in Cat. no. 224 [EA1990.232]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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