Textile fragment with squares, tendrils, flowers, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, tendrils, flowers, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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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, and dyed red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
35 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 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.
EA1990.655
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Catalogue text
A wide band with bandhani imitation, as in Cat. no. 622 [EA1990.629], white on red ground, and next to it three bands of tendrils and flowers, one with a continuous vine and flower-heads in white on a red ground, and two densely patterned, brown on a white ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 649 on p. 191 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 231, vol. ii p. 191 fig. 649
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