Textile fragment with bands of dotted patterns, vine, and stylized leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of dotted patterns, vine, and stylized leaves
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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 with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Object type
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Dimensions
10 x 32 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 21 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.
EA1990.536
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Catalogue text
Border bands, mostly made up from dots, one representing a continuous vine, another possibly stylized plants; an additional design field of stylized leaves. The fragment is similar to Cat. no. 525 [EA1990.532]. The design is white against a red or brown background.
Selvedge. The pattern is very slightly blurred on the reverse.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. 529 on p. 157 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 157 fig. 529
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