Textile fragment with grid of quatrefoils and serrated crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of quatrefoils and serrated crosses
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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 resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33.5 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block (grid) 9.5 x 8.5 cm estimated (length x width)
block (both narrow bands) 13 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.1027
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Catalogue text
A continuous grid design of diagonally linked quatrefoils and snowflake designs; the quatrefoils have a small rosette at the centre and are alternatively red and blue, the snowflake pattern is always blue. In addition there is a red band with white and blue flowers and rosettes, the flowers with long petals, and a narrow band of red squares with white frames, each filled with a rosette.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red. The size of the block used for the continuous grid design was 9.5 cm. x 8.5 cm. It is uncertain whether the two narrow bands were printed from a single block; both were stamped with a block that was 13 cm. long.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. 1020 on pp. 302-303 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 302 fig. 1020
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