Textile fragment with stars and hexagons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stars and hexagons
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; joined with seams in white flax and blue cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 22 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 25 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 26 / 21 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.
EA1990.925
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Catalogue text
Narrow, red bands, each with a continuous, white vine, separate leaves and a pearl border. These bands surround a rectangle of interlocking hexagons and six-pointed stars, defined by white outlines and filled with blue.
Two seams at right angles to each other. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.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. 919 on p. 273 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 273 fig. 919
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