Textile fragment with bands of flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of flowers
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; with remains of stitching 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
36 x 23 cm max. (warp x weft)
11 / 10 threads/cm (thread count)
block 15 x 12 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.386
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Catalogue text
White bands with red flowers and leaves alternate with red bands which have rows of single white flowers. There are two versions of the white bands; in one the flowers are part of a continuous vine, in the other the flowers are set in a row.
Selvedge and some remains of stitching. The reverse is not saturated with dye. The size of the block used is 15 cm. x 12 cm.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. 384 on p. 114 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 114 fig. 384
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