Textile fragment with bands of rosettes and dotted rhombic shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of rosettes and dotted rhombic shapes
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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; with stitching in cotton; mordant-dyed red and brown; three copper alloy pins
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 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.
EA1990.563
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands, one with rhombic shapes made up from dots, the other with a row of rosettes, of four different varieties that are repeated. Lines of dots separate the bands. The pattern is white against a red or brown ground.
The centres of the rosettes have mostly disintegrated. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Three corroded copper alloy pins are in the textile. There is a single knot of brown thread which has been dyed with the fabric.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. 556 on p. 165 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 165 fig. 556
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