Textile fragment with stylized plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized plants
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 23 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.
EA1990.1125
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of stylized, red plants surrounded by white tendrils on a blue ground, identical to Cat. no. 1117 [EA1990.1124].
There are stitches in two corners, probably modern. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The resist was apparently drawn on by hand. The fragment is identical in design and technical detail to Cat. no. 1117 [EA1990.1124], and possibly was originally part of the same fabric. A similar fragment was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: 34 and 86).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. 1118 on p. 336 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 335, vol. ii p. 336 fig. 1118
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