Textile fragment with script
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with script
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 15th century (1401 - 1500) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and 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
25.5 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 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.
EA1990.376
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Catalogue text
A wide band of script; a narrow band with a cable pattern. The design is white against a red background.
It is impossible to distinguish surface and reverse on technical grounds, as the precision of outline and the depth of dye saturation is identical. However, the direction of the script identifies the surface. 15th century?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. 374 on p. 111 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 111 fig. 374
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