Textile fragment with bands of dotted patterns, vine, rosettes, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dotted patterns, vine, rosettes, and 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, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; 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
27 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.532
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Catalogue text
Bands with patterns made up from dots; these are arranged as small rhombic shapes and as a continuous vine, with stylized leaves and tendrils. In addition there is a continuous design of rosettes and tendrils. The resist defines the design, the background is red or brown.
Stitches. The length of the block used is 12.5 cm. The reverse shows the pattern slightly blurred.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. 525 on p. 156 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 153-154, 156-157, & 159-166, vol. ii p. 156 fig. 525
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