Textile fragment with linked chevrons, flowers, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked chevrons, flowers, and leaves
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.5 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (width) -
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.
EA1990.31
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Catalogue text
Three bands, printed at right angle to the selvedge. The central one has the same elaborate chevron design as Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30]; it probably represents a single block width (9cm.). On both sides are identical bands of two versions of eight-petalled flowers, oneblue against white, the other white against blue. The flowers are separated by stylized leaves flanking a central axis. The fragment's design is identical to Cat. no. 128 [EA1990.136].
Selvedge, remains of stitching along selvedge.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. 23 on pp. 6-7 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 34, vol. ii p. 6 fig. 23
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