Textile fragment with dotted octagons, stars, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dotted octagons, stars, and quatrefoils
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
cotton, resist-dyed blue and light-brown; with a seam and repair stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35.5 x 27.7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 39 / 35 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.
EA1990.1195
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of linked octagons, stars, and quatrefoils, white and light brown on a blue background. The patterns are made up from small dots.
Seam along one side, as well as some mending stitches. The textile looks like a Javanese batik cap, i.e. stamped batik. It is unusual that the thread twist combines s and z.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. 1191 on pp. 359-360 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 359 fig. 1191
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