Tab with stylized plant
Details
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Title
Tab with stylized plant
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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 and mordant (possibly by hand), and dyed red and blue; with a rolled hem in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 8 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 23 / 22 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.
EA1990.1084
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Catalogue text
A single tab containing a red, stylized plant against a background of white, curving ?tendrils. There are some blue details.
A rolled hem is sewn along both sides of the tab. The reverse shows very slightly more dye saturation than the surface. The resist may have been drawn on by hand rather than block-printed.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. 1077 on p. 321 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 321 fig. 1077
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