Textile fragment with dots arranged in a geometric pattern
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dots arranged in a geometric pattern
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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
25.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 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.
EA1990.70
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Catalogue text
Small dots are arranged in two wide bands at right angles to each other, with a narrow border band at either side. The design is geometric, made up from squares and triangles. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
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. 62 on p. 17 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 22, vol. ii p. 17 fig. 62
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