Textile fragment with lines intersecting circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lines intersecting circles
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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 red, and possibly dyed traces of green; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 18.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 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.
EA1990.436
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Catalogue text
A grid pattern of grey lines outlined in red, which intersect red circles; the circles are fitted one inside the other and have serrated borders. Both red and white define the design.
Selvedge with remains of stitching. The reverse shows very little dye saturation.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. 429 on p. 127 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 127 fig. 429
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