Textile fragment with bands of stylized plants, rosettes, and tendrils
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of stylized plants, rosettes, and tendrils
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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 mordant, and 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
27 x 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block (tendrils and flowers) 11 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.
EA1990.604
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Catalogue text
A band of stylized plants emerging from half-medallion-shaped mounds, similar to Cat. no. 596 [EA1990.603], white against a red ground, and flanked on either side by a band with small rosettes and tendrils. This pattern is white against a brown ground. Additional blocks are placed next to each other without necessarily matching in design. These are dyed red or brown and are filled with white tendrils and flowers.
Selvedge; the bands set at right angles to it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The width of the block filled with tendrils and flowers was 11 cm.; a similar juxtaposition of block designs is illustrated by Gittinger [1982: 44].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. 597 on p. 176 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 179, vol. ii p. 176 fig. 597
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