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 single stitches in white cotton and flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
along length/width 13 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
block (rosettes) 9 x 9 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.
EA1990.671
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Catalogue text
A band of intricately knotted interlacing, red and brown on a white ground, and a continuous design of interlocking rosettes, as in Cat. no. 663 [EA1990.670]. The pattern can be read as white on a red ground, or reversed as red on a white ground.
There are two white cotton stitches along one side, as well as several single stitches of flax elsewhere on the fragment, without indication of their purpose. The block size used for the linked rosettes was 9 cm. x 9 cm. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse, which suggests that a resist was applied. The close similarities to Cat. no. 663 [EA1990.670] make it likely that both fragments come from the same fabric.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. 664 on p. 196 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 196, vol. ii p. 196 fig. 664
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