Textile fragment with rosettes, dots, and tab-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, dots, and tab-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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 34 cm max. (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.
EA1990.683
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Catalogue text
Along the selvedge is a border of three tabs, white with red details against a red ground. It is followed by a band with small arches on either side of a continuous vine, white on brown. The main design has a continuous field of red dots and large brown rosettes superimposed against a white background.
Selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 676 on p. 199 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 199 fig. 676
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