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 stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 22.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 6.5 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.
EA1990.25
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Catalogue text
S-shapes, some reversed, eight-petalled rosettes, and four-petalled flowers, arranged as in Cat. no. 3 [EA1990.11]. In addition, three bands of running vines make a border, a fragment of a fourth band is at right angles to the border. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The border is hemmed, using a running stitch. Overlap of the design identifies the width of the block as 6.5 cm., a reversal of s the length possibly as 12 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. 17 on p. 5 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 5 fig. 17
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