Textile fragment with stars, swastika, and possibly rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stars, swastika, and possibly 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, and dyed red and pale-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 24 / 27 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.
EA1990.1111
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands of red and white linked diamonds, two with a pale blue background. In addition, there is the beginning of a larger design with ?rosettes and pale blue stars and a swastika on a red ground.
The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation for the red than the surface. There is no evidence for the use of resist prior to dyeing 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. 1104 on p. 330 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 330 fig. 1104
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