Textile fragment with linked tendrils, stylized trees, and tabs
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Title
Textile fragment with linked tendrils, stylized trees, and tabs
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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, dyed red and brown, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in white flax, and repair stitching in cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 22 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 16 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.
EA1990.1076
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Catalogue text
Large, white tendrils with red outlines are linked and move around red leaf shapes that contain stylized, white trees. The background is blue. Along the selvedge is a narrow, red band with white rosettes, and at right angles is a blue band with diamonds and dots. Three blue and white tabs are next to this band, against a red background.
Selvedge with white stitches along it, sewn with flax thread. Additional flax thread is around the tabs, and some cotton thread is used for mending the fragment. The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red and brown, but more for the 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. 1069 on p. 318 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 318 fig. 1069
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