Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and leaves
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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
17 x 8.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 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.
EA1990.834
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Catalogue text
An interlace of red tendrils and leaves against a white ground, adjacent to a solid band of red at the selvedge. Fragmentary evidence of a brown design.
Selvedge. The textile is loosely woven, and the mordant has penetrated the reverse, so that there is only very slightly more dye saturation on the surface than the reverse.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. 832 on p. 245 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 245 fig. 832
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