Textile fragment with stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees
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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, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 16 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 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.
EA1990.578
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Catalogue text
A band of stylized trees, alternating in red and brown, and the beginning of a second band with a row of half-diamonds. The pattern is red or brown against a white background, but there is a wide red band beyond the patterned area.
Selvedge; the band moves at right angle to it. The pattern is 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. 571 on p. 169 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 169 fig. 571
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