Textile fragment with rosettes and grid of four-pointed shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and grid of four-pointed shapes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
39.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.68
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Catalogue text
Small dots form wavy lines, parallel and at right angles to each other, creating a grid of identical, four-pointed shapes, each with a very small rosette at the centre. A border band at one end has (?)floral designs. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The border design in particular is unusual for the Indian fragments. Also unique is the s-twist of the woven threads; it is doubtful, therefore, that the textile was made in India. There is no evidence of the use of a block. The resist may have been applied by hand.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. 60 on p. 16 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 16 fig. 60
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