Textile fragment with square, a flower, stars, and Arabic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with square, a flower, stars, and Arabic inscription
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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, dyed red and brown, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in silk
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
18 x 14.5 cm (warp x weft)
24 / 19 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.
EA1990.1015
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Catalogue text
A large, blue corner square filled with a red and white flower and ?tendrils; it is surrounded on two sides by bands of stars, and on the other two by bands with inscriptions. The bands are red and white, and they continue beyond the square. The beginning of an additional blue design appears, but it is too fragmentary to identify.
Selvedge along one of the star bands, and a hem sewn with silk. Surface and reverse show virtually identical dye saturation for both red and blue. Of the inscription only the word 'victory' can be made out.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. 1008 on p. 299 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 299 fig. 1008
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