Textile fragment with tear-drops and wing-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tear-drops and wing-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, dyed blue; joined with a seam in cotton, and printed with dark-blue and light-blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
27.5 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 45 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 44 / 26 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.
EA1990.269
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Catalogue text
Tear-drop shapes, with beaded outlines and wing shapes attached.
Two pieces sewn together; the pattern was printed after the seam had been sewn.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. 260 on p. 75 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 75 fig. 260
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