Textile fragment with star-shaped flowers in dotted circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with star-shaped flowers in dotted circles
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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 red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
9.5 x 22 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 13 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.
EA1990.565
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Catalogue text
Large star-shaped flowers with sixteen petals each, and set into a beaded circle, as in Cat. nos. 719 and 720 [EA1990.726 and EA1990.727]. The centre of each flower-head is filled with dots. The pattern is white against a red background, with some details in brown.
Selvedge. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.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. 558 on p. 166 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 166 & 212, vol. ii p. 166 fig. 558
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