Textile fragment with bands of dotted vines, stars, and serrated crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dotted vines, stars, and serrated crosses
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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 and brown; with remains of stitching, probably in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
51 x 41 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 15 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.
EA1990.564
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Catalogue text
A large fragment of bands placed diagonally and at right angles to each other. There are the same waving lines and stylized leaves as in Cat. nos. 525 and 530 [EA1990.532 and EA1990.537], as well as bands with linked tendrils, with stars and diamonds, and with a snowflake design, as in Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43]. The resist defines the pattern, the background of the bands is either red or brown.
Remains of stitching. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.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. 577 on pp. 165-166 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 165 fig. 557
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