Textile fragment with large chevrons, dots, S-shapes, and stars
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Title
Textile fragment with large chevrons, dots, S-shapes, and stars
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with an open seam in blue flax; with stitching in white flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
17.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 21 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 22 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9.5 cm estimated (length) -
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.
EA1990.156
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Catalogue text
Narrow, parallel bands are arranged as large chevrons, with the pattern alternating between a single row of dots, and s-shapes and irregular, small stars. The chevron bands with dots have triangular terminals.
Open seam sewn with fine, blue thread, some additional stitching with coarse, white thread. A repeat fault in the design (reversal of s-shape and separation of triangular terminal) marks the length of one side of the block as 9.5 cm.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. 148 on pp. 40-41 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 109, vol. ii p. 40 fig. 148
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