Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, S-shapes, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, S-shapes, and quatrefoils
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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 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
15 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 20 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.
EA1990.158
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Catalogue text
A band of diamonds with quatrefoils inside, and a half segment of the diamond shape to fill the sides of the band; a narrow border of running s-shapes is placed on either side. In addition there are quatrefoils identical to Cat. no. 126 [EA1990.134] and a fragmentary design which might be the lower part of an inscription, as in Cat. no. 207 [EA1990.215]. In general the resist defines the design against a blue background, but the internal diamond decoration is blue against white.
White and blue stitching.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. 150 on p. 41 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 56-57, vol. ii p. 41 fig. 150
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