Textile fragment with plants and an interlacing vine
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with plants and an interlacing vine
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 11.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 20 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.
EA1990.1114
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Catalogue text
At right angles to the selvedge is a wide band with a continuous, white, interlacing vine on red and blue ground, followed by a narrow band with a white, curving line, a row of dots, and a sawtooth edge. In addition there is an overall design of small, red and white plants. The blue background of this design is almost entirely covered with white, swirling lines.
Selvedge and remains of stitching. The reverse shows more dye saturation for the blue than the surface.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. 1107 on p. 331 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 331-333, vol. ii p. 331 fig. 1107
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