Textile fragment with squares, stars, and griffins
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with squares, stars, and griffins
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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, possibly with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 4.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 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.
EA1990.691
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Catalogue text
A grid of small squares linked and framed by brown bands that contain a single row of white stars, as in Cat. no. 683 [EA1990.690]. The squares have fragments of griffins inside, brown on a white ground. Otherwise the background is red.
There is a selvedge which does not coincide with the edge of the design. The reverse shows slightly more 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. 684 on pp. 201-202 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 201 fig. 684
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