Textile fragment with leaves and dots
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with leaves and dots
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 9.5 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.
EA1990.923
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Catalogue text
A band with four leaves arranged as a quatrefoil, with white outlines and filled with red against a blue ground, and surrounded by small flowers with four petals and tiny leaves. The quatrefoil alternates with a single red leaf, red with white outline. Next to the band is a a field of red blotches filled with white dots, against a blue ground.
Selvedge at right angles to the band. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim have a band with single leaves similar to the one here (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 32 & 36).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. 917 on p. 272 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 272 fig. 917
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