Textile fragment with rosettes, dots, floral shapes, and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, dots, floral shapes, and squares
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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 resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in white flax and blue thread, possibly flax
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
16 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 17 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.
EA1990.83
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Catalogue text
Eight-petalled rosettes, dots, small floral shapes, clusters of four small squares which might also be interpreted as cross-shapes against a white background. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Blue and white stitching, of the same colour as the textile.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. 75 on p. 21 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 21 fig. 75
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