Textile fragment with bands of squares and triangles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of squares and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
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Material and technique
linen, possibly block-printed, and applied with grey
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Object type
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Dimensions
44 x 39 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 13 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.
EA1990.453
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Catalogue text
Two wide bands with grey squares crossed into sections that are filled with a spiral each, and a narrow grey band with triangles and spirals. The fabric is mainly white.
Selvedge. [The original card has the comment 'Fatimid'.]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. 446 on p. 131 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 131 fig. 446
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