Textile fragment with rosettes and linked S-shapes made of dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and linked S-shapes made of dots
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
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.
EA1990.57
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Catalogue text
Small dots are arranged as elongated, angular s-shapes that are linked and create a grid, with a four-petalled rosette in the centre of each segment. In addition, lines of dots are on either side of a band of diagonal geometric designs. The resist creates the pattern, the background is blue.
There is no evidence of block outlines, and the fineness of the dots could suggest that the resist was 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. 49 on p. 14 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 14-15, vol. ii p. 14 fig. 49
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