Textile fragment with curving vines, quatrefoil, and rosette
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with curving vines, quatrefoil, and rosette
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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 mordant, and dyed brown, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with a stitch in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 9.5 cm (warp x weft)
16 / 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.
EA1990.802
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Catalogue text
A continuous design with curving vines from which flowers emerge. These are represented in side-view, and a quatrefoil and rosette are set between. The pattern is defined by white outlines against a red ground, with further details in deeper red or brown.
Selvedge, with a single stitch remaining. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye, but not with brown, which suggests that the mordant producing the latter was stamped first, and the brown details dyed, before a resist was applied and the red produced by immersion in a mordant bath.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. 795 on p. 233 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 233 fig. 795
Audinet, Karthika, ‘Fustat Fragments: Indian Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection’, Textiles Asia Journal, 10, Issue 3, (January 2019), fig. 2 on p. 21
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