Textile fragment with bands of S-shapes and zigzag
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of S-shapes and zigzag
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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
29 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 20 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.
EA1990.937
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Catalogue text
Three narrow bands, one with linked s-shapes, the second with a continuous zigzag, and the third with white and red dots. All are divided by blue bands. In addition there is a fragmentary band of trees, similar to Cat. no. 929 [EA1990.935].
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.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. 931 on p. 276 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 276 fig. 931
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