Textile fragment with vines, leaves, and flowers, probably from a garment
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with vines, leaves, and flowers, probably from a garment
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching and a seam, both in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
39 x 20 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 x 5 cm estimated (length x 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.
EA1990.663
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Catalogue text
Four bands of continuous vines with tendrils, leaves, and ornate flowers, identical in design but alternating between two colours, one red on white, the other brown on white.
A selvedge with remains of stitching along it, and further stitching along two sides, certainly remains of a seam. The shape of the fragment suggests that it was tailored to be part of a garment. The size of the block used was 12.5 cm. x 5 cm. The reverse shows less 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. 657 on p. 193 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 193 fig. 657
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