Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, and octagons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, stars, and octagons
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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 brown; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
88 x 34 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 9 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.
EA1990.326
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Catalogue text
A large design field has bands of rosettes that form a diagonal frame around the centre filled with stars and octagons. The octagons have frames of cable pattern. At right angles to the selvedge there are additional bands with rosettes.
Selvedge, with remains of stitching along it. The reverse shows considerably 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. 317 on p. 94 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 98, vol. ii p. 94 fig. 317
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