Textile fragment with curving tendril, leaves, and a flower
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with curving tendril, leaves, and a flower
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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 brown, and resist-dyed blue; additional piece of linen; joined with stitching in flax; with a seam in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
13 x 7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 29 / 19 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.
EA1990.1006
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Catalogue text
A curving tendril with leaves emerging, set into a framed compartment; adjacent to it is a flower with two white blossoms. The tendrils, leaves, and frames are white with brown outlines against a blue ground.
A diagonal seam, as well as an additional scrap of white linen fabric sewn on.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. 999 on p. 296 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 296 fig. 999
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