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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28.5 x 25.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 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.
EA1990.297
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Catalogue text
Interlocking, rotating floral design; the focus of the pattern can be shifted, as can the definition of form through colour, i.e. the design can be read as either red on a white background, or white on red.
The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse. 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. 288 on p. 86 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 86-88 & 149-150, vol. ii p. 86 fig. 288
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