Textile fragment with stars, rosette, and crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stars, rosette, 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, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with a hem in light-blue silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 13 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.
EA1990.1014
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Catalogue text
A band with small compartments of stars, white on a red ground, and one with a red rosette and crosses on blue. The design is similar to parts of Cat. nos. 1004 and 1006 [EA1990.1011 and EA1990.1013]. In addition there is the beginning of a large design that cannot be read.
Hem sewn with light blue silk thread. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for the red. The fabric is woven from very fine thread.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. 1007 on p. 298 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 298 fig. 1007
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