Textile fragment with dots and stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dots and stylized trees
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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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 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.
EA1990.347
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Catalogue text
A band of dots and stylized trees; the dots are arranged to form the base line as well as columns that alternate with the trees. The pattern is defined by the resist, the background is red.
The band only occupies part of the fragment; the remaining area is solid red. The reverse is saturated with dye.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. 340 on p. 101 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 101 fig. 340
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