Textile fragment with stylized trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees
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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 resist or mordant, and dyed red; with a stitch in silk or mercerized cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38 x 15 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 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.
EA1990.363
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Catalogue text
A wide band with elaborate, stylized trees with symmetrical branches emerging from a central pole and a floral top, alternating with ornate floral columns with a pedestal base and vegetal capitals. Additional narrow bands, two with dots or small diamonds, one with stylized leaves alternating with quatrefoils, and one with small dots, lines, and crosses. The design is both red against a white ground, and white against a red ground.
It is difficult to determine the method of dye application; the reverse is only slightly less precise than the surface. A single stitch remains.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. 356 on p. 106 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 106 fig. 356
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