Textile fragment with wing-shaped flowers or vases, tendrils, and rosettes
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Title
Textile fragment with wing-shaped flowers or vases, tendrils, and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; one piece of cotton, block-printed with mordant and resist, and dyed red and blue; all pieces joined with stitching in coarse cotton and fine flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
36 x 18 cm (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 (dots), along length/width 14 / 14 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.
EA1990.316
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Catalogue text
Ornate, wing-shaped flowers or vases, filled with tendrils and small rosettes; the space between them is entirely filled with tendrils and very small rosettes. The pattern is defined by white lines against a red background. An additional fragment has red dots against a blue background and remains of a border band.
Three pieces are sewn together: two have the identical, floral design, the third is different in design, thread-count, and dye technique. It is both mordant- and resist-dyed, including the use of indigo.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. 307 on p. 91 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 91 fig. 307
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