Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flower-heads
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flower-heads
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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 in coarse cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
27 x 17.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 12 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.
EA1990.837
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of tendrils with leaves and flower-heads, white on a red ground, and some brown details added to the large leaves and flowers.
Selvedge with remains of stitching done with coarse thread. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 835 on p. 246 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 246 fig. 835
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