Textile fragment with squares and stepped squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares and stepped squares
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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, and dyed blue; with remains of 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
22.5 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 18 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.
EA1990.157
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Catalogue text
Bands with stylized bodhi leaves, a running vine with ornate leaves attached, and a running scroll on either side, as in Cat. no. 145 [EA1990.153]; fragment of a continuous field with four types of squares, two of which have stepped sides. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge and remains of stitching.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. 149 on p. 41 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 41 & 56, vol. ii p. 41 fig. 149
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