Textile fragment stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment stylized trees
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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 resist, and dyed blue; with remains of 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
18 x 15 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 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.
EA1990.214
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Catalogue text
Fragmentary band of squares filled with a rosette and possibly a diamond-like shape, and a band of stylized trees and plants, as in Cat. no. 205 [EA1990.213]. Every second group of trees and flowers has light blue flower centres. The resist defines the patter, the background is blue.
Selvedge. There are some light blue details and remains of stitching.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. 206 on p. 58 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 58 fig. 206
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