Textile fragment with bands of crossed tendrils, rosettes, and linked squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of crossed tendrils, rosettes, and linked squares
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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 and brown; with remains of stitching in white and blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 13 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.
EA1990.631
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Catalogue text
A band of crossed tendrils alternating with small rosettes, white on a red ground, and on either side of it a band with small squares, linked and with a cross inside each. The background of this pattern is brown.
Selvedge; some 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. 624 on p. 184 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 184, vol. ii p. 184 fig. 624
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