Textile fragment with tendrils and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils and flowers
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; joined with a round seam in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29.5 x 25 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.828
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of curving white tendrils, with flowers and leaves emerging. These are defined by white outlines and details, filled with red or brown; the background is red.
A narrow strip of fabric is sewn onto one end of the fabric, using a round seam. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 12 cm. x 9.5 cm.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. 826 on pp. 243-244 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 243 fig. 826
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