Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils

Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils (EA1990.9, front )

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

16 x 16.5 cm (warp x weft)
16 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.9

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Catalogue text

S-shapes alternating with eight-petalled rosettes without a central dot and star-shaped quatrefoils. The motifs are regularly arranged and create a continuous design. The design is defined by the resist, the background is blue.

Selvedge.

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. 1 on p. 1 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 1, 2, 4-5, & 55, vol. ii p. 1 fig. 1

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