Textile fragment with stylized bodhi leaves, chevrons, and zigzags
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized bodhi leaves, chevrons, and zigzags
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 11 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 10 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.
EA1990.348
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands of chevrons, a zigzag of half-diamonds, and stylized bodhi tree leaves. The pattern is white against a red background, with some red outlines.
Selvedge. On the reverse the pattern is slightly blurred.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. 341 on p. 101 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 101 fig. 341
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