Textile fragment with leaves, flowers, plants, and circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves, flowers, plants, and 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 purple; with a rolled hem, possibly 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
29 x 12 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.
EA1990.682
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Catalogue text
A wide band with a large leaf-and-flower pattern, red on a white ground; in addition a continuous design of small, five-leafed plants and discs, white against a red ground.
A selvedge is at right angles to the design bands. A rolled hem is along the edge of the wide design band. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.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. 675 on p. 199 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 199 fig. 675
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