Textile fragment with triangles forming squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with triangles forming squares
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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, applied with grey, and dyed yellow
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 15.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 16 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.
EA1990.461
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Catalogue text
The main design field has yellow and white (undyed) triangles juxtaposed to form squares; there is an additional border band with a continuous, interlocked vine. The pattern is defined through fine, grey outlines and filled in with yellow.
A selvedge along the border band. The reverse shows very little dye saturation. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used to produce the grey was a tannin.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. 454 on pp. 133-134 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 133 fig. 454
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