Textile fragment with stylized bodhi leaves, chevrons, and zigzag
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized bodhi leaves, chevrons, and zigzag
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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 possibly mordant, and dyed red and brown; with stitching in white flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 12 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 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.
EA1990.575
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Catalogue text
A row of stylized bodhi tree leaves, white against a red ground, is followed by a narrow band of chevrons and a wider band with a zigzag and a trefoil in each triangular space. The band of chevrons is then repeated. With the exception of the leaves, the pattern is brown or red against a white ground.
There is a selvedge with some stitching along it, done with coarse, white thread. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye, but possibly the mordant for the brown details was stamped.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. 568 on p. 168 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 169, vol. ii p. 168 fig. 568
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