Textile fragment with flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flower-heads
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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, mordant-dyed red, and applied with blue dye; with remains of stitching in silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 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.
EA1990.931
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Catalogue text
A band with red flower-heads, each filled with an additional white flower. The background is filled with white lines and some blue oval shapes, both possibly representing leaves. A narrow band with red semicircles on a white ground serves as a border.
Very fragmentary remains of stitching. The blue was possibly not applied by immersion.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. 925 on p. 275 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 275 fig. 925
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