Textile fragment with ornate squares, flowers, and crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with ornate squares, flowers, and crosses
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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, possibly with traces of purple; with remains of stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 26.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 x 9 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.
EA1990.366
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Catalogue text
Ornate squares, flower-shapes, and crosses, each with a rosette at the centre. The square has a vine-filled frame, and each cross has two thick tendrils emerging from two of its arms. In general the design is white against a red ground.
Selvedge and traces of stitching. The size of the block used was 9 cm. x 9 cm. The reverse is much less saturated with dye than the surface. There might be traces of a second colour, possibly once purple, in the centre of the square.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. 359 on p. 107 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 107 fig. 359
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