Textile fragment with tendrils and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils and rosettes
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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
30.5 x 14 cm (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.1059
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of fine, red tendrils and small rosettes. The pattern is dyed over with blue, but the small rosettes are reserved and appear red.
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. 1052 on p. 312 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 312 fig. 1052
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