Textile fragment with vine and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vine and 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, and applied with dark-grey
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
7 x 18 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 19 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.
EA1990.437
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Catalogue text
A narrow band of continuous vine, with leaves emerging and turning backwards; the adjacent design area is fragmentary, but it also shows tendrils. The pattern is white against a dark grey background.
Selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used to produce the greyish blue was tannin; there is no presence of indigotin.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. 430 on p. 127 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 127 fig. 430
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