Textile fragment with rosettes and linked S-shapes made of dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and linked S-shapes made of dots
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 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.
EA1990.60
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Catalogue text
Small dots, partly making a grid with a small rosette in the centre of each segment, and bands of diagonal, geometric border designs, similar to Cat. no. 49 [EA1990.57]. The bands form a border with a corner. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The resist might have been applied by hand.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. 52 on pp. 14-15 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 14 fig. 52
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