Textile fragment with stylized leaves and cable pattern
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized leaves and cable pattern
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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; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 11 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.
EA1990.351
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Catalogue text
Two bands, one with a cable pattern, the other with stylized leaves; a narrow band of a small zigzag on either side of the cable pattern. Both red and white define the design against a red background.
Remains of stitches. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 344 on p. 102 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 102 fig. 344
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