Textile fragment with Maltese crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with Maltese crosses
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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 a running stitch hem in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
8.5 x 18 cm max. (warp x weft)
11 / 8 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.
EA1990.252
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Catalogue text
Two Maltese crosses, their arms filled with dots. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. At right angles to it is a hem sewn with a running stitch.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. 243 on p. 70 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 70 fig. 243
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