Textile fragment with crossed tendrils and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with crossed tendrils and rosettes
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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, dyed red and brown, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 11.5 cm (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.
EA1990.1090
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Catalogue text
A red band with crossed, white tendrils and a border on either side with white hatching against blue, as in Cat. no. 1082 [EA1990.1089]. A narrow band of red rosettes on dark blue along the selvedge. In addition, there is the beginning of bands set at right angles.
Selvedge parallel to the band. The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red, but more for blue. The resist was probably applied by hand rather than block.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. 1083 on pp. 323-324 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 323 fig. 1083
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