Textile fragment with large and small rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with large and small 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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red, and possibly dyed green
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 x 17 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
block 8 x 8 cm estimated (length x width) -
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.
EA1990.422
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Catalogue text
Large, red rosettes are surrounded by smaller rosettes, four eight-petalled white rosettes alternating with four very small red ones. The pattern is red on a light background, parts of which may have been dyed in an additional colour.
Selvedge; the pattern is printed to continue beyond it. The reverse is only partly penetrated by the dye. The design was printed with a block the size of 8 cm. x 8 cm. Three of the smallest red rosettes have six petals, while the fourth only has five. This mistake recurs throughout the fabric.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. 415 on p. 123 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 123 fig. 415
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