Textile fragment with stylized trees and three-layered rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized trees and three-layered rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed brown, and possibly hand-applied with red dye; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
38.5 x 17.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 21 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.
EA1990.362
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Catalogue text
Bands at right angles to each other; one with stylized trees, as in Cat. no. 353 [EA1990.360], the other with three-layered rosettes interspersed with small, six-petalled rosettes, and additional narrow bands with rows of dots, stars, and stylized leaves. In general, the design is red against a light ground, although most of the narrow bands reverse the order.
Selvedge, some stitching. Red is added as a filler in some parts, probably applied by hand. The reverse is very slightly less precise in outline than the surface, possibly indicating the use of resist and mordant immersion.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. 355 on p. 106 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 106 fig 355
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