Textile fragment with bands of rosettes, leaves, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of rosettes, leaves, and tendrils
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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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 26 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.
EA1990.594
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Catalogue text
Three parallel bands; the central one with a rosette surrounded by leaves and tendrils, white against red, and on either side a band with separate tendrils and small rosettes, white against a brown ground. At right angles to these bands there is another one identical to the two which are white against a brown ground, as well as the fragment of a further band.
A selvedge is parallel to the three bands described above. The reverse shows slightly 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. 587 on p. 173 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 173 fig. 587
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