Textile fragment with stalks, tendrils, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stalks, tendrils, and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
three pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; joined with stitching in red silk or mercerized cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 19 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 19 / 18 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.
EA1990.413
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Catalogue text
Elaborate plant designs of ornate, thick stalks filled with lines, fine tendrils, and small rosettes, and additional leaves and flowers attached. The pattern is red against a light background.
The fragment is made up from three pieces sewn together with red thread. The dye has not quite saturated the reverse, although the fabric is fine and loosely woven.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. 406 on p. 120 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 120 fig. 406
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