textile, garment
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Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.477
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of linked hexagons with a rosette inside each; red triangles surrounding the hexagons create stars. The inside of each hexagon is white, and the rosette is either red or brown.
A seam holds together two pieces, and there are the remains of additional stitching. The cut of the fragments suggests that they had been tailored as a garment. The width of the block used was 8.5 cm. The reverse shows little dye saturation.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. 470 on p. 141 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 141 fig. 470
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