Textile fragment with stars and diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stars and diamond-shapes
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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, dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 12 cm max. (warp x weft)
18 / 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.
EA1990.1024
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Catalogue text
A band of small compartments with red, white, and blue stars, and larger compartments with red and white diamond shapes, partly on a blue ground. The design is similar to Cat. no. 1004 [EA1990.1011]. In addition there is the beginning of a ?floral design, red and blue on a white ground and with fine brown outlines.
Selvedge along the band. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and brown, and slightly more for blue.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. 1017 on p. 302 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 302 fig. 1017
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