Textile fragment with squares and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares and diamond-shapes
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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 brown, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 7 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 18 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.
EA1990.976
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of elaborate squares and diamonds linked by tendrils. The outlines are brown, the diamonds are brown and red, and the squares are blue and white.
The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for the red and brown, but some additional resist cracks in blue.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. 970 on p. 288 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 297, vol. ii p. 288 fig. 970
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