Tab with stars, circles, and crosses
Details
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Title
Tab with stars, circles, and crosses
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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, and dyed blue; with stitching, possibly a hem, in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.5 x 12 cm (warp x weft)
22 / 20 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.
EA1990.175
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Catalogue text
A tab shape with a surround of stars and four circles, the centre with a circle and a grid of blue lines or white crosses. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge; some stitching, apparently to hem three sides of a rectangle, with the tab inside.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. 166 on p. 46 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 46 & 192, vol. ii p. 46 fig. 166
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