Textile fragment with small and large rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with small and large rosettes
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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, and mordant-dyed brown; with stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
52.5 x 10.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 11 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.
EA1990.338
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Catalogue text
Narrow and wide bands of small and large rosettes, as in Cat. no. 317 [EA1990.326]. The bands are at right angles to the selvedge. In addition there is the beginning of a pattern with rosettes set into an interlace and a large rosette.
Selvedge, stitching.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. 330 on p. 98 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 152, vol. ii p. 98 fig. 330
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