Textile fragment with interlace based on script, leaves, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace based on script, leaves, and tendrils
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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, possibly dyed blue, and possibly applied with mordant
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 x 18.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
25 / 26 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.
EA1990.273
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Catalogue text
A border of interlace based on script, but here without meaning. The upper part of the interlace ends in leaves and tendrils, as in Cat. no. 207 [EA1990.215]. Beyond the border there is fragmentary evidence of a floral pattern. The resist defines the design, the background was originally ?blue.
Selvedge. The fragment is heavily soiled, and the original colour can not be definitely established. It is possible that some mordant has been added.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. 264 on p. 76 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 76, vol. ii p. 76 fig. 264
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