Textile fragment with linked hearts
Details
-
Title
Textile fragment with linked hearts
-
Associated place
-
Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with stitching in cotton
-
Material index
-
Technique index
-
Object type
-
Dimensions
9.5 x 24 cm max. (warp x weft)
11 / 12 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
-
Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
-
Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1219
Our online collection is being continually updated. Find out more
Know more about this object? Spotted an error? Contact us
-
Catalogue text
Linked heart shapes in a band, flanked on either side by a narrow band with a continuous vine. A beaded border is set between each band; the design is white against a red background. The fragment is identical to Cat. no. 335 [EA1990.343].
Selvedge. The reverse shows 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. 336 on p. 100 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 100 fig. 336
Reference URL
