Textile fragment with squares and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares and rosettes
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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; with remains of stitching and additional stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 6.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 15 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.
EA1990.928
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Catalogue text
A band of squares, one with a red diamond filled with a rosette, the other containing a larger, eight-petalled white rosette. Both squares are filled with blue and have a red border with white dots. Narrow white and red bands and a slightly wider blue band are followed by a blue and red band filled with eight-petalled, white rosettes.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands, with remains of stitching along it. There is additional stitching along the opposite side of the fragment. The reverse shows more 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. 922 on p. 274 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 274 fig. 922
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