Textile fragment with rosettes set into linked stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes set into linked stars
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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 mordant, and dyed red; with stitching in blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
77 x 69 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 12 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.
EA1990.331
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Catalogue text
The large fragment has border bands of small and large rosettes, as well as a tear-drop edge. The main design field has rosettes set into linked stars. The design is mainly white on a red ground.
The large, continuous star design is similar to tile arrangements. Two selvedges, with blue stitching along one. As both selvedges remain, the width of the fabric set up on the loom can be determined. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. [Vol. i p. 67 states that a similar design is suggested by Pfister to be Near Eastern; however, this fragment is from Gujarat.]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. 323 on p. 96 (vol. ii), vol. i p. 67, vol. ii p. 96 fig. 323
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