Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and dots
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and dots
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with open seams, with remains of a rolled hem, and with further stitching in white thread, possibly flax, and blue flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 38 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 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.
EA1990.129
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Catalogue text
Narrow bands of eight-petalled rosettes, clusters of nine very small squares, and dots, alternating with bands showing a continuous vine with separate leaves and tendrils. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Three pieces sewn together; the largest has a selvedge with remains of a rolled hem. Surface stitching as well as open seams. The design bands of the two smaller fragment are sewn to the large one at a right angle. The very small remains of a forth fragment appear on the edge opposite the selvedge.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. 121 on pp. 32-33 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 33 fig. 121
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