Textile fragment with geometric plants and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with geometric plants and flowers
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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, and probably dyed blue or applied with grey; with remains of stitching in white and blue flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
57 x 52.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 16 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.
EA1990.466
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Catalogue text
A large square framed by four borders with light flowers on a dark ground; the centre is filled with a geometric plant design defined by dark outlines on a light ground.
Two selvedges, with remains of white and blue stitching. The reverse shows very little dye saturation. The selvedges, which had been turned under, are blue, while the design is otherwise grey. This suggests that the fabric was originally blue but has faded.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. 459 on p. 135 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 135 fig. 459
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