Textile fragment with interlocking floral shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking floral shapes
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and purple; with stitching in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 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.
EA1990.301
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Catalogue text
Interlocking floral design, similar to Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]. Again, the focus of the design can be shifted, although the pattern is more clearly defined by a single co0lour, red in this case. In addition there is a narrow band of linked diamond shapes, dyed purple.
Irregular stitching in the middle of the fragment. A corner of the block used is visible. The purple band is very faint. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse. Possibly 13th century, see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].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. 292 on p. 87 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 87 fig. 292
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