Textile fragment with interlocking squares and triangles
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking squares and triangles
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, applied with resist (possibly by hand), mordant-dyed red and brown, and dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 24 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.
EA1990.1052
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Catalogue text
A band of interlocking, brown squares and triangles defined by white outlines and partly also filled with blue. The band has narrow borders of white zigzag lines, and on either side is the beginning of a brown and white pattern.
The method of design application and the colour scheme are similar to Cat. no. 1042 [EA1990.1049]. The resist is possibly drawn on by hand. 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. 1045 on p. 310 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 310 fig. 1045
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