Textile fragment with triangles and S-shapes made of dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with triangles and 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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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 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.
EA1990.63
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Catalogue text
Small dots arranged in bands that move diagonally to the weave. Two bands have rows of triangles, one (and the fragment of a second) have s-shapes separated by small squares. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The resist might 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. 55 on p. 15 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 15 fig. 55
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