Textile fragment with leaves and flower-heads, possibly from a garment
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves and flower-heads, possibly from a garment
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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; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 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.
EA1990.410
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Catalogue text
Closely set tendrils with long, indented leaves and small flower-heads seen in profile. The pattern is red against a white background.
A row of stitches along one, diagonal edge of the fragments, possibly once part of the tailoring of a garment. The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 403 on p. 119 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 119 fig. 403
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