Textile fragment with tendrils and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; joined with stitching in fine cotton and coarse flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
47 x 46 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.359
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Catalogue text
A continuous field with large, curving tendrils, each ending in a rosette with twelve petals. In addition, there are small leaves and flowers. The design is defined by white lines against a red ground.
Two pieces are sewn together, with some attention paid to a continuation of the pattern. There are two types of stitching; the fine thread is cotton, the coarse one is flax. The red is badly faded where it has been exposed to light. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.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. 352 on p. 105 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 105 fig. 352
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