Textile fragment with circles and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with circles and quatrefoils
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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 resist-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
16.5 x 7.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 18 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.
EA1990.1008
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Catalogue text
Two narrow bands, one with red circular shapes on blue, the other with small red quatrefoils on white. At right angles to the bands is the beginning of another red design on white ground; this is too fragmentary to read.
Selvedge parallel to the two bands desribed. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface for the red, but more for blue.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. 1001 on p. 297 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 297 fig. 1001
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