Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, 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
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32.5 x 8.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 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.
EA1990.322
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Catalogue text
Rows of eight-petalled rosettes with a small circle at the centre of each, alternating with squares which hold a stepped diamond inside. The pattern is red, the background light.
Selvedge; the pattern is blurred on the reverse. The design may be compared to three fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim, although the similarities are general rather than specific (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 22, 23, & 41). The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.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. 313 on p. 93 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 93 fig. 313
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