Textile fragment with hearts and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hearts and leaves
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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 red; with remains of stitching in white cotton and blue flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
10 / 10 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.
EA1990.340
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Catalogue text
A wide band of heart shapes with beaded surrounds, and filled and surrounded with leaf shapes. Beaded edges also contain a continuous vine on either side. At right angles to this band there are two narrow bands, one with diamond shapes, the other with stylized bodhi tree leaves. The design is defined by white outlines against a red ground and filling.
Selvedge; remains of white and blue stitching.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. 332 on p. 98 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 333, vol. ii p. 98 fig. 332
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