Textile fragment with circles, crossed tendrils, dotted tendrils, and stepped diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles, crossed tendrils, dotted tendrils, and stepped diamond-shapes
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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
48 x 30 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 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.
EA1990.685
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Catalogue text
Parallel to the selvedge is a border with bands of white discs, as well as crossed tendrils. In addition there is a slightly wider band of thick tendrils filled with a line of brown dots, and a band with stepped diamond shapes.
Selvedge.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. 678 on p. 200 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 200 fig. 678
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