Textile fragment with geometric patterns, stars, and possibly script made of dots
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Title
Textile fragment with geometric patterns, stars, and possibly script made of dots
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue; with remains of stitching, possibly in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
45 x 6.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 20 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.
EA1990.71
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Catalogue text
The entire design is made up from small dots. There is a band of diagonal geometric designs with a hook motif, as in Cat. no. 53 [EA1990.71], and stars alternating with (?)script. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Three side of the fragment have a rolled hem. The small fragment Cat. no. 58 [EA1990.66] may have been part of this fabric.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. 63 on p. 17 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 16, vol. ii p. 17 fig. 63
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