Textile fragment with stylized plants and curving lines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants and curving lines
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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, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 28 / 20 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.
EA1990.1117
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of small, red shapes surrounded by white curving lines on a blue ground. The pattern has its origin in the plant design of Cat. no. 1107 [EA1990.1114].
The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used for red was alizarin with purpurin, from Rubia tinctorum L., and the colorant for blue was indigotin[, from a variety of the indigo plant].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. 1110 on p. 332 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 341, vol. ii p. 332 fig. 1110
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