Textile fragment with s-shapes, rosettes, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with s-shapes, rosettes, 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, and dyed blue; with remains of 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
17.5 x 16.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.14
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Catalogue text
S-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes with central dots and four-petalled flowers, arranged in squares as in Cat. no. 3 [EA1990.11]. The s-shapes parallel to the warp are reversed. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge; remains of stitching. Overlapping of the design suggests that the block used had a length or width of 10cm.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. 6 on p. 2 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 2 fig. 6
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