Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with squares
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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; with stitching in red thread, possibly silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14.5 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11.5 x 11.5 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.628
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Catalogue text
A square within a square; the triangular spaces outside the large square are filled with small clusters of squares and quarter-circles. As the block print is repeated, these triangles also form a square, with a full circle at the centre. The entire design is made up from small square shapes with a dot at the centre, in bandhani imitation. The pattern is white against a red ground.
There is a selvedge, and fine stitching along it, using red thread, possibly silk. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used was 11.5 cm. x 11.5 cm.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. 621 on p. 183 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 183 fig. 621
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