Textile fragment with stylized plants and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants and tendrils
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, hand-applied with resist and mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 18 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.
EA1990.1118
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Catalogue text
The main design field is divided into rectangular shapes, the largest with a version of the stylized plant pattern of Cat. no. 1107 [EA1990.1114]. It is blue, white, and red on a red ground that is filled with white tendrils. In addition there are smaller rectangles, filled with cross-hatching or red dots on a blue ground, all with a wavy outline. A band follows, with single blue leaves on a red ground.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The design is related to that of a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990).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. 1111 on pp. 332-333 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 332 fig. 1111
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