Textile fragment with stylized tendrils or hooks, and a dotted vine
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized tendrils or hooks, and a dotted vine
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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 mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 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.
EA1990.554
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Catalogue text
A band with a dotted, continuous vine and tendrils, as in Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.532]; the pattern is white against a red ground. On either side of the band is a continuous pattern of separate, stylized tendrils or hook shapes, white against a brown background.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.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. 547 on p. 163 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 164, vol. ii p. 163 fig. 547
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