Textile fragment with interlace and interlocking rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace and interlocking rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching 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
29.5 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 14 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.
EA1990.670
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Catalogue text
A band of knotted interlacing, and a continuous design of interlocking rosettes. The design is red and brown on a white ground, although it can also be read as white against a red and brown background.
A line of stitches, all cut. The design is slightly blurred on the rverse, which suggests that a resist was used. Pattern and technical details are very similar to Cat. no. 664 [EA1990.671].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. 663 on p. 196 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 196, vol. ii p. 196 fig. 663
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