Textile fragment with star-shaped flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with star-shaped flowers
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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, mordant-dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with a stitch in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 19.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 22 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.
EA1990.980
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Catalogue text
A band of large, star-shaped flowers, blue, red, and white with a surround of white dots. The background is blue dyed over the red. A border of thin, red and white lines and a single row of white dots on blue separate the pattern from a design of large tendrils and flowers. These are white and red on a blue ground.
For all three colours, the reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. A single, long stitch is near the centre of the fragment.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. 974 on pp. 289-290 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 289 fig. 974
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