Textile fragment with tab-shapes and linked circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tab-shapes and linked circles
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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 mordant and resist, and dyed red and blue
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12 x 30 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 16 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.
EA1990.1054
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Catalogue text
Two red tab shapes filled with white floral designs are stamped at the selvedge against a blue background. They are followed by a band of linked, red and white circles with a white zigzag border on a red ground. Beyond the band is the beginning of a vegetal design, possibly with large, red tendrils. The background is blue and filled with white tendrils.
Selvedge. The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation than the surface, in particular for the 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. 1047 on p. 311 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 311 fig. 1047
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