Textile fragment with stepped diamond-shape and vegetal pattern
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stepped diamond-shape and vegetal 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, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, 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
19.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 31 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.
EA1990.922
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Catalogue text
A band of red, white, and blue wheels, and a second band with a diamond with stepped sides and four symmetrically arranged leaves, in white outlines and filled with blue against a red ground. The latter band is similar to Cat. no. 160 [EA1990.168], which is dyed with indigo. In addition there is the beginning of a vegetal pattern, with white tendrils and bunches of fruit on a red ground.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The fabric is woven from very fine thread.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. 916 on p. 272 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 272 fig. 916
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