Textile fragment with plant design
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plant design
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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; additional cotton fragment; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 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.
EA1990.787
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Catalogue text
A large plant design, partly brown and filled with white dots, partly white with brown outlines, all against a red ground. The pattern is possibly part of a medallion. Fragment of a border with brown lines.
Some stitching in two parts of the fragment, both following a straight line. A very small additional cotton fragment is in one of the stitches. The reverse is slightly less saturated with dye than the surface.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. 780 on p. 229 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 229 fig. 780
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