Textile fragment with rosettes and small squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and small squares
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with an open seam 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
21.5 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 23 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 22 / 24 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.
EA1990.93
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Catalogue text
Rosettes and very small squares. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The fragment is made up from two pieces held together by an open seam that follows the two selvedges; 22x24 is the thread count for the smaller piece.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. 85 on p. 23 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 23 & 26, vol. ii p. 23 fig. 85
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