Textile fragment with stepped squares, linked by Maltese crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stepped squares, linked by Maltese crosses
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Associated place
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Date
probably 17th century (1601 - 1700) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown; with a rolled hem in blue thread, possibly flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 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.
EA1990.481
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of stepped squares, each filled with red and with a small square at the centre, and linked by Maltese crosses, similar to Cat. no. 473 [EA1990.480]. The pattern is defined by white outlines against a brown background, but the design forms are also filled with brown or red.
A rolled hem with blue stitching. The reverse is slightly blurred. A similar fragment was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 56). This fragment is likely to be later, though, probably of 17th-century date: see Cat. no. 473 [EA1990.480].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. 481 on p. 142 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 142 fig. 481
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