Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
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Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
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Associated place
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Date
14th century (1301 - 1400)
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching, possibly in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 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
First floor | Gallery 28 | Asian Crossroads -
Museum department
Eastern Art
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Accession no.
EA1990.35
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Catalogue text
Elaborate chevron design, as in Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30]. The blue rows of chevrons alternate between dark and light blue.
Remains of stitching.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. 27 on p. 8 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 27 fig. 8 & vol. i pl. 27
