Textile fragment with dots arranged in geometric patterns
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dots arranged in geometric patterns
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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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 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.
EA1990.58
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Catalogue text
Small dots arranged in bands of diagonal, geometric patterns. Two wide bands parallel to each other, a narrow band is at right angles to them. 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. 50 on p. 14 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 14 fig. 50
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