Textile fragment with bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation and interlocking circles
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Title
Textile fragment with bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation and interlocking 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 mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in blue thread, possibly flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 34 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 16 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.
EA1990.795
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Catalogue text
Two square blocks create alternating designs, one with triangular bandhani imitation, the other with interlocking circles, as in Cat. no. 617 [EA1990.624]. Both designs are white on a red ground, and the interlocking circles have in addition brown outlines.
Selvedge with remains of blue stitching. The pattern was printed to extend beyond the selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 788 on pp. 231-232 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 232, vol. ii p. 231 fig. 788
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