Textile fragment with bands of flowers and circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of flowers and circles
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Associated place
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Date
18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 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.
EA1990.387
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Catalogue text
Single flowers in side-view, and single circles or round fruit, arranged in alternate bands of red on white ground, and white on red. Very narrow beaded bands are set between these.
The reverse shows very little dye saturation. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root.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. 385 on p. 114 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 114 fig. 385
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