Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, circles, and arches
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, circles, and arches
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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, dyed red and brown, and applied with blue dye
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 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.
EA1990.917
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Catalogue text
A band of diamonds alternating with floral spandrels, each diamond filled with a blue Maltese cross. The pattern is white with brown outlines and blue details on a red ground. Narrow bands of circles with red dots inside are on either side. There is an additional band of small, pointed arches supported by stepped diamond shapes, white with brown outlines and red and blue details.
A finely printed fragment. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, not only for both red and brown, but for the blue as well. This suggests a surface application of the dye.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. 911 on pp. 270-271 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 270 fig. 911
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