Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with stars and inverted hooks
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Title
Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with stars and inverted hooks
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed brown; with a rolled hem in blue cotton, and repair stitching in white cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 13 cm (warp x weft)
19 / 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.
EA1990.391
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Catalogue text
Bandhani imitation in band arrangements, with a six-pointed star and inverted hook motif. The pattern is as in Cat. no. 66 [EA1990.74], which is dyed with indigo. The design is white against a brown background.
Selvedge; a rolled hem sewn with blue thread is opposite it. Additional mending at right angles to the selvedge is done with white thread. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant that produced the dark brown was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.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. 363 on p. 108 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 108 fig. 363
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