Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing 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
28.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11.5 x 8 cm estimated (length x 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.
EA1990.818
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Catalogue text
Large, thick, red tendrils with brown outlines are combined in a regular interlacing pattern. The space between the tendrils is densely filled with minute, brown tendrils and dots on a white ground.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used was 11.5 cm. x 8 cm.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. 816 on p. 240 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 240-241, vol. ii p. 240 fig. 816
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