Textile fragment with lobed diamond-shapes and leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lobed diamond-shapes and 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, dyed light-blue and dark-blue, and mordant-dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
37 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 18 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.
EA1990.222
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Catalogue text
Lobed diamond shapes, as in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219], with the same alternation between rosette centres and centres of stepped diamonds; the fragment also has the T-shaped leaves, arranged to form a square. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Unlike Cat. nos. 211 and 212 [EA1990.219 and EA1990.220], the centres of the rosettes and stepped squares are red. The colour is only on the surface, not on the reverse of the fabric, and the fillers are irregular. This suggests that the mordant was applied by hand after the indigo dye had been completed.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. 214 on p. 61 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 61 fig. 214
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