Textile fragment with S-shapes, dots, and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes, dots, and squares
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 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.
EA1990.22
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Catalogue text
S-shapes, some of which are reversed, arranged to form squares. Single round dots are in the corners, and clusters of four squares in the centre of each square. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The block edge is visible.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. 14 on p. 4 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 6, vol. ii p. 4 fig. 14
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