Textile fragment with rosettes, dots, and lobed diamond-shapes
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, dots, and lobed 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
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and purple; joined with a seam in brown thread, possibly silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.503
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of eight-petalled rosettes with a dot at the centre, and additional dots; two bands with stylized tendrils and lobed diamonds are separated by a band with rows of dots. The pattern is white against a red or purple background.
A seam, done in long stitches with brown thread. The original fabric was cut along the band of dots, which seems to have had a design as in Cat. no. 538 [EA1990.545]. The reverse is more heavily saturated with dye than the surface.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. 496 on p. 148 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 148 fig. 496
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