Textile fragment with stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees
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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, and mordant-dyed purple and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 12 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.
EA1990.879
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Catalogue text
A stylized tree is repeated to make a continuous design. The tree is purple with some brown lines, and takes the shape of a large leaf; additional leaves and shoots emerge from it. The background is white.
The thread is very thin, and the fabric is loosely woven. It is not possible to distinguish surface and reverse.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. 873 on pp. 256-257 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 256 fig. 873
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