Textile fragment with vine and stylized bodhi leaves
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Title
Textile fragment with vine and stylized bodhi leaves
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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; with stitching in blue and white flax; stitching on the reverse in blue flax, possibly once used as casing
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 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.
EA1990.131
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Catalogue text
Two narrow bands, one with a running vine and leaves attached, the other a row of stylized bodhi leaves. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Three rows of stitching; two use blue thread, one white. A small fragment of blue cotton is sewn on to the reverse, possibly once as casing.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. 123 on p. 33 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 33 fig. 123
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