Textile fragment with interlace and four-pointed stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace and four-pointed stars
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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 light-brown and dark-brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
36 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block (interlace) 16.5 x 7 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.
EA1990.739
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Catalogue text
A band of interlacing brown and white outlines is set next to a pattern of linked, four-pointed, dark brown stars with small rosettes in between.
The reverse is more saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used for the interlace was 16.5 cm. x 7 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. 732 on p. 215 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 215 fig. 732
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