Textile fragment with dots, quatrefoils, and circles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with dots, quatrefoils, and circles
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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, 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
19.5 x 11.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 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.
EA1990.113
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Catalogue text
Lines of dots run parallel and at right angles to each other, diagonally to the selvedge, and form a grid of squares. Each of these has either a quatrefoil inside, or a white circle containing a blue ring. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. The blue background has two shades; it is possible that these are meant to be regular and that the squares containing the circles have all been dyed a darker 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. 105 on pp. 28-29 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 28 fig. 105
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