Textile fragment with interlocking floral shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking floral shapes
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; joined with a seam in cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
29.5 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 13 / 11 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 12 / 12 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.
EA1990.300
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Catalogue text
Interlocking, rotating floral design; the focus of the pattern can be shifted, as can the definition of form through colour, i.e. the design can be read as either red on a white background, or as white on red; the fragment is similar to Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297].
A coarsely sewn seam down the middle. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse. Possibly 13th century, see Cat. no. 296.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. 291 on p. 87 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 34, vol. ii p. 87 fig. 291
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