Textile fragment with circles and petals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles and petals
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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 stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.327
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Catalogue text
The main design field has fragments of three large circles, each with twelve-petalled rosettes in the centre and petals as a frame; in addition there is a small, six-spoked spiral. Next to this are two bands with beaded edges, one with linked, beaded circles and a rosette at the centre of each, the other with linked diamond shapes. The design of the main field is white against a red ground, while the bands are red against white.
Stitching. 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. 318 on p. 94 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 95 & 166, vol. ii p. 94 fig. 318
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