Textile fragment with lobed, elongated hexagons
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with lobed, elongated hexagons
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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, resist-dyed blue, and dyed green or yellow; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 x 23.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 15 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.
EA1990.1100
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Catalogue text
A continuous pattern of lobed, elongated hexagons arranged as a grid, with red and white rosettes placed in between. The background is blue, and the hexagons are either red, or ?green or ?yellow. They are each filled with a small plant.
A row of stitching along one edge. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and ?green/yellow, but slightly 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. 1093 on p. 327 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 327 fig. 1093
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