Textile fragment imitating patola pattern, with diamond-shapes, squares, and hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment imitating patola pattern, with diamond-shapes, squares, and hearts
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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 mordant, and 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
34.5 x 8 cm (warp x weft)
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.
EA1990.606
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Catalogue text
A single band of diamonds and checkerboard squares, the latter set into an elongated hexagon. Hearts are attached to the two points of the hexagon. The band has a border of small arches surmounted by crosses. The design is white against a brown ground, and a solid red band fills the space to the selvedge. The design is certainly done in imitation of double-ikat patola patterns.
Selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 599 on pp. 176-177 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 176 fig. 599
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