Textile fragment with four-pointed stars and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with four-pointed stars and rosettes
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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
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15.5 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 12 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.
EA1990.367
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Catalogue text
Four-pointed stars, touching on each point and thereby creating an enclosed space; at the centre of this is a rosette. The stars are filled with small crosses and dots. The pattern is outlined in white against a red ground.
The rosettes and the centre of each star had an additional mordant substance added, to result in a different colour; this has been corrosive and has dissolved the affected fibres. The reverse is fully saturated with dye.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. 360 on p. 107 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 107 fig. 360
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