Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
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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 remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38.5 x 17.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 17 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.
EA1990.26
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Catalogue text
S-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes, and quatrefoils, arranged as in Cat. no. 1 [EA1990.9]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Selvedge, remains of stitching.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. 18 on p. 5 (vol. ii), vol. ii p.5 fig. 18
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