Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and vines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and vines
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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, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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.
EA1990.1151
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Catalogue text
A wide band with an intricate interlace of white tendrils on red and blue. Along either side of it is a narrow, red band with a stylized continuous white vine, followed by the repetition of the design of intricate tendrils.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.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. 1146 on p. 347 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 347 fig. 1146
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