Textile fragment with scales
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with scales
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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 brown; joined with a seam in white flax, and with additional stitching in orange cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29.5 x 24.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 15 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 16 / 11 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.
EA1990.399
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Catalogue text
A field of diagonal rows of overlapping scales. The scales are both brown and white, and there is no background.
The fabric is sewn together from two pieces, with selvedges along the seam. The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation than the surface.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. 392 on p. 116 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 116 fig. 392
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