Textile fragment with vine, tendrils, and medallions
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine, tendrils, and medallions
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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 mordant, and dyed light-blue, dark-blue, and black; blue cotton patch, attached with blue flax; with a double row of stitching in white flax, and repair stitching in white cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
39 x 12 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
additional fabric 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.
EA1990.272
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Catalogue text
An elaborate, continuous vine with tendrils and medallions, the latter with a quatrefoil inside. Black outlines define the pattern, and the resist fills it.
Selvedge with a double row of stitching. A blue patch of cotton is sewn on with blue 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. 263 on p. 76 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 76 fig. 263
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