Textile fragment with hexagons, quatrefoils, and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hexagons, quatrefoils, and dots
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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 resist, and 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
29.5 x 14 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 13 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.
EA1990.117
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Catalogue text
Small hexagons (or floral shapes?) with blue inside and a tiny white dot, small quatrefoils and single dots, all arranged to make a continuous, regular design. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Selvedge. The resist has barely penetrated to the back.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. 109 on p. 29 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 140, vol. ii p. 29 fig. 109
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