Textile fragment with leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with a repair seam in brown thread, possibly cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 5.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.1034
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Catalogue text
A red band with single white and blue leaves, as in Cat. no. 1026 [EA1990.1033].
A mending seam sewn with brown thread. For both red and blue, the reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The single leaves are similar to the design on two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim, although there they are red with white outlines on a red ground (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 32 & 36).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. 1027 on p. 305 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 305 fig. 1027
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