Textile fragment with bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with remains of a seam 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
41.5 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 15 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14 x 8.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.54
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Catalogue text
A grid of dots, three rows deep and simulating tie-dye (bandhani), with an eight-petalled rosette in the centre of each square. The resist defines the design.
Selvedge and remains of stitching that indicate a seam along and at right angles to the selvedge. Some overlapping and repetition of inaccuracies in the design identify the block size as 14 cm. x 8.5 cm.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. 46 on p. 13 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 13 & 32, vol. ii p. 13 fig. 46
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