Textile fragment with dots, Z-shapes, and stars
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Title
Textile fragment with dots, Z-shapes, and stars
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
three pieces of fabric, possibly cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue; joined with run-and-fell seams in white and blue flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 13 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 12 / 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.
EA1990.59
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Catalogue text
Small dots arranged in bands of geometric designs. A wide band of large z-shapes alternating with stars has narrow bands with dot design on either side. At a right angle to this are narrow bands of stars, zigzag, and very small ?floral shapes. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Two run-and-fell seams at right angle to each other, one following the selvedge. The resist may have been applied by hand. [The two smaller fragments have a thread count of 17x17 and 12x16; see sketch on conservation card.]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. 51 on p. 14 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 14 fig. 51
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