Textile fragment with linked tendrils and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked tendrils and flower-heads
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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 cotton and white flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 25 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10.5 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.408
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Catalogue text
Linked tendrils with small circles attached as leave, and flower-heads seen in side-view, as in Cat. no. 399 [EA1990.406]. Red on a white ground.
Selvedge with a row of blue stitches close to it, as in Cat. nos. 399 and 400 [EA1990.406 and EA1990.407]. Probably all three fragments come from one textile, as similarities in design, dye technique, and stitching along the selvedge suggest. This fragment is better preserved than the other two. Again the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used can be identified as 10.5 cm. x 9.5 cm.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. 401 on p. 119 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 118, vol. ii p. 119 fig. 401
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