Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
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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 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
35 x 8 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 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.
EA1990.291
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Catalogue text
Chevron design; as in Cat. no. 26 [EA1990.34], the dyed chevrons are emphasized with a trefoil tip. The design therefore is not read as ambiguously as when dyed and white parts complement each other, as in Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30].
Selvedge. The zigzag of the chevrons moves at a right angle to the selvedge. There are some additional traces of red dye on the reverse, suggesting that the fabric was immersed in a mordant solution.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. 282 on p. 84 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 84 fig. 282
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