Textile fragment with hearts or leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hearts or leaves
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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; with remains of a seam in coarse white cotton with traces of red dye, and additional stitching in 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
26.5 x 14 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 13 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.
EA1990.342
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Catalogue text
Bands of varying widths, with heart or leaf shapes with beaded surrounds, linked diamond shapes, and stylized bodhi tree leaves, identical to Cat. no. 333 [EA1990.341]. The design is defined by white outlines against a red background and with red filling.
Selvedge with remains of coarse thread, originally part of a seam that was sewn prior to dyeing the fabric, as the thread is partially red. Additional stitches at right angles to the selvedge. These details are identical to Cat. no. 333 [EA1990.341]; it is likely that the two fragments were part of one textile. The reverse is heavily saturated with dye. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.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. 334 on p. 99 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 333, vol. ii p. 99 fig. 334
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