Textile fragment with large plants and possibly bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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Title
Textile fragment with large plants and possibly bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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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 mordant, and dyed red; with remains of flax sewing thread
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Material index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 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.
EA1990.398
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Catalogue text
A field of small dots, possibly done as bandhani imitation, and larger plants, seen in side-view and set into a beaded frame, as in Cat. no. 390 [EA1990.397]. The dots are white against a red ground, the plants red against a white ground.
There are a few remains of sewing thread. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.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. 391 on p. 116 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 116 fig. 391
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