Textile fragment with bands of stylized trees or leaves, rosettes, and stepped squares
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of stylized trees or leaves, rosettes, and stepped squares
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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 and possibly mordant, dyed brown, and mordant-dyed red; with stitching in blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 x 7.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.574
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Catalogue text
Two bands, the wider one with a row of stylized tree or leaf shapes, the narrow one with alternating rosettes and stepped squares with diamonds inside. The pattern is red and brown against a white ground.
Two stitches sewn with coarse, blue thread. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye, suggesting a mordant immersion, but it is possible that the brown design was done by mordant stamping.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. 567b on p. 168 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 168 fig. 567
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