Textile fragment with star-shaped grid made of dots
Details
-
Title
Textile fragment with star-shaped grid made of dots
-
Associated place
-
Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
-
Material index
-
Technique index
-
Object type
-
Dimensions
26.5 x 23 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
-
Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
-
Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.64
Our online collection is being continually updated. Find out more
-
Catalogue text
Small dots are grouped together into lozenges that in turn are linked to form a grid a star-shaped grid design, with a small rosette or lozenge in the centre of each section. Fragmentary additional bands. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The resist may have been applied by hand.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. 56 on pp. 15-16 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 15 fig. 56
Reference URL
