Textile fragment with bands of vine, rosettes, and tear-drops
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of vine, rosettes, and tear-drops
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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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Object type
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Dimensions
22 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
8.5 x 8.5 cm (warp x weft) -
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.
EA1990.930
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Catalogue text
Narrow parallel bands, one red with a white continuous vine and separate leaves, a second blue with small, linked white rosettes, and a third also blue with a row of white tear-drops.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands.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. 924 on p. 274 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 274 fig. 924
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