Textile fragment with squares, spirals, and possibly tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, spirals, and possibly 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; with a rolled hem in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 15 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.
EA1990.643
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Catalogue text
Squares with a spiral design, white on brown, alternate with squares which have an uncertain pattern, possibly representing tendrils and a floral centre. The latter is white on a red ground. In addition there is a band with small discs, white on brown.
A narrow, rolled hem along the edge of the band. The reverse shows 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. 637 on pp. 187-188 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 187 fig. 637
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