Textile fragment with lozenges and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lozenges and dots
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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 mordant-dyed light-brown and dark-brown; with a stitch 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
44 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 9 / 13 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.
EA1990.876
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of white lozenge shapes, each with a dots inside and set on brown ground filled with white dots. In addition there is a band of light brown triangles and small circles, as well as a narrow band of brown interlace on a white ground.
A single stitch remains on the interlace band. The reverse shows more dye saturation 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. 870 on p. 256 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 256 fig. 870
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