Textile fragment with rosettes, stepped squares, and crosses

Title

Textile fragment with rosettes, stepped squares, and crosses
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

14 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.110

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Catalogue text

Rosettes with eighteen narrow petals, and with a square in the centre; stepped white squares with blue, lobed squares inside, and a white dot at the centre. A small single cross is set between each rosette and square. In general, the resist defines the design, but the stepped square is an exception.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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