Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
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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
20 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 23 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.
EA1990.30
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Catalogue text
Continuous rows of linked chevrons, with a trefoil at each peak and further elaborations along the side, which provide the counter-image to another trefoil peak. The design can be read as either blue or white, creating the same image in each, respectively.
The print stops short of one side. The block edge is visible down the middle of the fragment.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. 22 on p. 6 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 6-9, 33-34, 77, & 85, vol. ii p. 6 fig. 22
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