Textile fragment with hearts and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hearts and tendrils
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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 a hem, additional stitching, and remains of a seam in flax, and stitching in silk
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
34 x 19 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 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.
EA1990.849
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of red tendrils with serrated outlines, surrounding red hearts defined by brown outlines. Red dots also fill the space between the tendrils; the background is white.
Selvedge with a hem along it. This is sewn with z-twist flax; additional sewing, with the remains of a seam, is in s-twist flax, and a wedge-shaped intake uses z-twist silk. 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. 844 on p. 148 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 248 fig. 844
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