Textile fragment with large medallion, petals, and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with large medallion, petals, and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with a seam in flax, and with 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
66.5 x 40 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 16 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.243
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Catalogue text
A large medallion made up of concentric bands with ornate petals. Diagonally to the weave there is a band of squares with beaded borders, filled with four squares alternating with rosettes. The background has a continuous design of small, six-petalled rosettes. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
A seam divides the medallion down the centre. It is sewn with flax thread. Additional mending stitches are done with cotton thread.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. 234 on p. 67 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 67-68, vol. ii p. 67 fig. 234
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