Textile fragment with leaves and flower-heads
Details
-
Title
Textile fragment with leaves and flower-heads
-
Associated place
-
Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
-
Material index
-
Technique index
-
Object type
-
Dimensions
25 x 12 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
block (border band) 15.5 x 5.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
No. of items
1
-
Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
-
Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.646
Our online collection is being continually updated. Find out more
Know more about this object? Spotted an error? Contact us
-
Catalogue text
A border with long, narrow leaves and flower-heads, white on a red ground, and fragments of a large design, showing leaves with serrated edges. The latter pattern has brown outlines on a white ground and is partly filled with red.
A selvedge is parallel to the band. The size of the block used for the border band was 15.5 cm. x 5.5 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 640 on p. 188 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 188 fig. 640
Reference URL
