Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils, flowers, and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils, flowers, 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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Object type
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Dimensions
9 x 25 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 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.
EA1990.838
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Catalogue text
Thick tendrils are arranged in a regular interlace with flowers and leaves emerging. The pattern is white with brown outlines and some red details filled in, on a white ground. In addition, there is a very narrow red band along the selvedge with small white rosettes.
Selvedge. The reverse is 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. 837 on p. 246 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 246 fig. 837
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