Textile fragment with swirling leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with swirling 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 with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in white cotton and blue thread, possibly flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (width) -
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.
EA1990.49
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Catalogue text
Separate leaves irregularly arranged. The resist defines the pattern.
Selvedge, remains of stitching. The width of the block used was 9 cm., the length uncertain.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. 41 on pp. 11-12 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 12, 85-86, & 153-154, vol. ii p. 11 fig. 41
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