Textile fragment with rosettes, leaves, flowers, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, leaves, flowers, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with seams in black thread, possibly mercerized cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 18 / 23 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.
EA1990.162
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Catalogue text
Ornate, swirling floral design with rosettes, and leaves and flowers emerging from vines; in addition there is a band with bandhani imitation, as in Cat. no. 70 [EA1990.78], and a narrow band of a running vine with separate leaves. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Two seams, sewn with black thread. The match of design is out of step.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. 154 on p. 42 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 42 fig. 154
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