Textile fragment with rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes
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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 mordant-dyed brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9.5 x 7.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.277
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Catalogue text
Continuous regular design of eight-petalled light rosettes with a dot in the centre, as in the indigo-dyed version of Cat. no. 111 [EA1990.119]. The pattern is light against the dark background.
The dye has heavily saturated the reverse, which suggests that the fabric was immersed in a mordant solution after a resist had been applied to the surface. Slight overlapping of the design and the repeat of a flawed rosette suggests a block size of 9.5 cm. x 7.5 cm.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. 268 on p. 81 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 81 fig. 268
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