Textile fragment with bands of elongated hexagons and vines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of elongated hexagons and vines
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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 black, block-printed with resist, and 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
15 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.1107
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Catalogue text
Three narrow bands, one with red, white, and blue elongated hexagons on black ground, the next with a continuous, black and red vine on blue ground, and the third with a fine, white interlaced vine and red flowers on black. The bands are separated by small borders with single lines of dots.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and black, but considerably more for blue. The edge of the block used is visible across all three bands.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. 1100 on p. 329 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 329 fig. 1100
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