Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and flower-heads
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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; possibly block-printed with resist, 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
31.5 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.944
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of large, interlaced tendrils with red flower-heads. The tendrils have brown outlines and single rows of brown dots inside, and most of the background is blue.
The brown outlines are carefully printed, but the application of red and blue only partly matches the pattern. One side of the block used for the outlines was 12.5 cm. long. Red and brown only partly appear on the reverse, while there is heavy saturation with blue.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. 938 on p. 278 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 278 fig. 938
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