Textile fragment with interlace
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlace
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Associated place
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Date
possibly 13th century (1201 - 1300) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
32 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.304
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Catalogue text
The pattern is related to the spiral interlocking design of Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297]; however it is less organic, and close to a geometric interlacing, as in Cat. no. 294 [EA1990.303]. Although the ambiguity of reading the design is present to some degree, as in the previous fragments, the pattern is primarily defined by the red colour.
The pattern is equally precise on the surface and reverse. Possibly 13th century, see Cat. no. 296 [EA1990.305].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. 295 on p. 88 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 88 fig. 295
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