Textile fragment with tendrils, ornate rosettes, and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, ornate rosettes, and squares
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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
21 x 22 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 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.
EA1990.590
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Catalogue text
A wide band filled with thick tendrils and ornate rosettes, and with small squares containing a single flower head. The pattern is red against a white ground. On one side of it are narrow bands of dots, a continuous vine, and small arches; and fragmentary evidence of the same design band is on the other side. The narrow bands are white against a brown ground.
Selvedge parallel to the bands. The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 583 on p. 172 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 172 fig. 583
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