textile
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Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.78
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Catalogue text
Pattern in bands: bandhani imitation of star and inverted hook motif; vine and separate leaves, wide band with three rows of bandhani imitation along both sides, and with diamond shapes, squares, and circles, the latter two with an eight-petalled flower in the centre. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Stitching follows a curve; an additional open seam holds a small patch on the reverse. The fragment has a regular, octagonal shape.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. 70 on p. 19 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 42, vol. ii p. 19 fig. 70 & vol. i pl. 36
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