Textile fragment with plants with long leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plants with long leaves
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; joined with a seam in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 26 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 19 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 19 / 18 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.
EA1990.403
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Catalogue text
Plants with long leaves which have a sawtooth edge and are swirling sideways; additional narrow bands, the smallest one with tiny six-petalled rosettes, a wider one with a dotted zigzag and ornate floral patterns in between, and one with large, diagonally arranged dots. All patterns are white against a red ground.
A seam along parts of the zigzag band. The reverse is slightly blurred.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. 396 on p. 117 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 117 fig. 396
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