Textile fragment with dotted vine, trefoils, and hearts
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dotted vine, trefoils, 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, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in blue and white flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
50.5 x 19.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 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.
EA1990.958
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of a beaded vine, with trefoils and heart shapes attached. The beading is white, the pattern is red, and the background is deep blue. There is the beginning of a red and white border.
Stitching along the border. The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red, but more for the blue.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. 952 on pp. 282-283 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 282 fig. 952
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