Textile fragment with interlocking circles and interlace
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking circles and interlace
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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
18.5 x 40.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 14 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.
EA1990.798
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Catalogue text
A large design field has two different square blocks, one with linked interlocking circles, as in Cat. no. 788 [EA1990.795], the other with interlacing tendrils and flowers. The former pattern is white with brown details on a red ground, the latter is red on a white ground. A narrow brown band with white rosettes is set at right angles to the selvedge.
Selvedge. 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. 791 on p. 232 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 232 fig. 791
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