Textile fragment with spikes and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with spikes and diamond-shapes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; with 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
13 x 40.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 12 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.
EA1990.350
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Catalogue text
A band of diamond shapes, with a line of zigzag on either side, and a second band with spikes, possibly representing stylized plants. Both bands are set at right angles to the selvedge. The pattern is red against a light ground, but adjoining a solidly red area.
Selvedge. The fragment is badly faded, and it is hardly possibly to determine surface and reverse. The design appears to be equally clear on either side.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. 343 on p. 102 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 102 fig. 343
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