Textile fragment with swirling tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with swirling tendrils
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue; with stitching 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
19.5 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 19 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.
EA1990.193
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Catalogue text
Swirling tendrils, some with buds as terminals, narrow bands to separate motif areas, and fragments of large ?tendrils. [See Pfister for a possible comparison (1938: Pl.XXIa).] The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The resist was probably not block-printed, but applied by hand.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. 185 on p. 52 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 52 fig. 185
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