Textile fragment with sawtooth edge, vine, and crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with sawtooth edge, vine, and crosses
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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; with stitching in flax and cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
33 x 9 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 19 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.
EA1990.211
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Catalogue text
Following the selvedge, there are narrow bands of sawtooth edge, a running vine with separate leaves, and small blue crosses set into a white band, with blue dots separating the crosses, as in Cat. no. 16 [EA1990.24]. The same bands are repeated at right angles to the selvedge. The resist generally defines the design, with the exception of the band of crosses. The background is blue.
Selvedge. Some stitching, probably to hold the fragment together.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. 203 on p. 57 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 57 fig. 203
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