Textile fragment with bands of zigzag, chevrons, and bodhi leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of zigzag, chevrons, and bodhi 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 possibly mordant, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
22.5 x 10.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 14 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.
EA1990.579
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Catalogue text
A band with a zigzag and trefoils, flanked by rows of chevrons, and a border band of bodhi tree leaves, altogether similar to Cat. no. 568 [EA1990.575]. In general the pattern is red or brown against a white ground.
The reverse is saturated with red dye, but the mordant for the brown details was possibly stamped.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. 572 on p. 169 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 169 fig. 572
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