Textile fragment with elaborate trees
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with elaborate trees
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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
17.5 x 4.7 cm max. (warp x weft)
block 16 x 12 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.
EA1990.878.b
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Catalogue text
An elaborate tree with different flowers and leaves emerging is repeated to create a continuous design. The pattern is white and partly filled with red, on a brown ground.
Selvedge. The size of the block used was 16 cm. x 12 cm. The reverse shows far less 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. 872 on p. 256 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 256 fig. 872
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