Textile fragment with bands of tendrils, flowers, and squares

Title

Textile fragment with bands of tendrils, flowers, and squares
Associated place

Egypt (find spot)

Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)

Gujarat (place of creation)
Date

2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; possibly block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
Material index

cotton
Technique index

plain woven;

relief print;

mordant dyed;

resist dyed
Object type

textile
Dimensions

41 x 9 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Eastern Art
Accession no.

EA1990.914

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Catalogue text

A series of bands parallel to each other: at the top is a row of arches, followed by a wide band of large tendrils and flowers, partly made up from dots, and a second wide band of squares filled with flowers. At the bottom are two bands, one with single leaves, the other with ornate, round vases. All patterns are red, white, and blue.

In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

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