Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils, leaves, and flowers
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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 stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21 x 6.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 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.
EA1990.416
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Catalogue text
Tendrils with serrated leaves and large flowers; the pattern is red against a white background.
Remains of stitching. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.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. 409 on p. 120 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 121 fig. 409
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