Textile fragment with rosettes and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes 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 or mordant, and dyed brown; with a flat seam in blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 24.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9.5 cm estimated (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.
EA1990.278
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Catalogue text
Eight-petalled rosettes, each with a dot in the centre, and separated by rows of dots. The design is light against a brown background.
A flat seam at the edge, sewn with blue thread. The pattern is equally precise on the front and reverse. The width of the printing block was 9.5 cm., the length cannot be determined.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. 269 on p. 81 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 81 fig. 269
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