Textile fragment with arches, diamond-shapes, vines, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches, diamond-shapes, vines, and flowers
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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 remains of a hem in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
42 x 35 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 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.
EA1990.656
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Catalogue text
Two wide bands separated by two narrow bands with a continuous vine. One of the wide bands has a row of arches, alternately filled with diamond shapes and cross-hatching. The arches have a pearl border and are separated by tall, slender stylized plants. The design is red on white. The second wide band has a white continuous vine with large flowers attached, against a red ground.
Stitching on the remains of a rolled hem. The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation 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. 650 on p. 191 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 191 fig. 650
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