Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, flower-heads, and floral designs
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, flower-heads, and floral designs
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
7 x 32.5 cm (warp x weft)
15 / 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.
EA1990.652
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Catalogue text
A wide design field with tendrils, leaves with serrated edges, and flower-heads, red on a white ground. This is followed by a band with dots and diamond shapes and a wider band with large, standing floral designs, both design bands white with brown outlines on a red ground. Next to the selvedge is a row of crenellations which can be read as either white or red.
A selvedge is 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. 646 on p. 190 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 190 fig. 646
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