Textile fragment with serrated crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with serrated crosses
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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 a flat seam in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 19 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 20 / 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.
EA1990.48
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Catalogue text
Four-pointed snowflake pattern, with small crosses set between, as in Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43]. The resist defines the pattern.
Flat seam.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. 40 on p. 11 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 11 fig. 40
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