Textile fragment with stepped squares, cable pattern, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stepped squares, cable pattern, and flowers
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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 or mordant, and dyed red; with remains of a raised seam in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 12 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.
EA1990.352
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Catalogue text
Two bands of stepped squares; in addition a band with a cable pattern which has a five-petalled flower inside each loop. The latter band has a narrow band of zigzag on either side. The design is white against a red background.
Selvedge; remains of a raised seam. The design is equally well defined on the front and reverse of the fragment, so that it is not possible to comment on the method of mordant application.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. 345 on p. 102 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 102 fig. 345
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