Textile fragment with geometric patterns, diamond-shapes, and zigzags made of dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with geometric patterns, diamond-shapes, and zigzags 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
27 x 34.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 18 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.
EA1990.65
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Catalogue text
Small dots make up geometric designs, arranged in bands at right angles to each other. A wide band at right angles to the selvedge has diamond shapes, and a narrow band of zigzag on either side. Smaller bands are placed parallel to the selvedge.
Selvedge. 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. 57 on p. 16 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 16 fig. 57
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