Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
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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 stitching in white flax and blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 12 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 20 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.
EA1990.33
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Catalogue text
Elaborate chevron design, as in Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30]. The design can be read as either blue or white.
Selvedge, stitching along selvedge. The edge of the block appears at right angles to the selvedge.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. 25 on p. 7 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 7 fig. 25
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