Textile fragment with large stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with large stars
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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, and dyed red; with remains of 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
22 x 8.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 15 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.
EA1990.353
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Catalogue text
Large stars with beaded edges, set into compartments with a beaded border. The stars are interlocking as in tile arrangements, and they are white with red details added, against a red background.
Selvedge and remains of stitching. The mordant has not completely penetrated the reverse.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. 346 on p. 103 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 103 fig. 346
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