Textile fragment with flowers, leaves, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, 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 25.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 x 8.5 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.
EA1990.822
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Catalogue text
A continuous field of tendrils, leaves, flowers, some of which are large, ornate and tear-drop shaped. The design is white on a red ground. In addition there is a narrow brown and white border along the selvedge.
Selvedge. The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used for the continuous pattern was 10 cm. x 8.5 cm. The dye analysis has shown that both red and brown were produced by using the colorant morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root.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. 820 on p. 241 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 241 fig. 820
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