Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 18.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 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.
EA1990.302
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Catalogue text
Interlocking spirals which can also be read as a floral pattern, similar to Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]. The pattern can be read as determined by either the red or the white, and the point of focus can be shifted.
Some stitching. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse. The fragment has dark, soiled areas. Possibly 13th century, see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].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. 293 on p. 87 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 87 fig. 293
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