Tab with chevrons, stars, and S-shapes
On display
Details
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Title
Tab with chevrons, stars, and S-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 brown; with a hem and additional stitching, possibly in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 11 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 13 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
Lower ground floor | Gallery 5 | Textiles -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.390
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Catalogue text
Tab with large chevron design filled with a line of dots, and with small, triangular terminals; small stars and s-shapes are set in between. The design is white against a brown background.
A hem is sewn down both sides, and the tip is made by folding back triangles and sewing them down.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. 365 on p. 109 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 109 fig. 365
