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
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with repair stitching in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
25.5 x 24 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 19 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.
EA1990.55
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Catalogue text
A grid of dots that imitate bandhani, arranged as in Cat. no. 46 [EA1990.54], with a rosette in the centre of each square. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Some stitching, done to mend the textile.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. 47 on p. 13 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 13 fig. 47
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