Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes and triangles
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of diamond-shapes and triangles
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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 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
23 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 24 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.
EA1990.426
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Catalogue text
Bands of geometric patterns: a central one with diamond shapes is flanked by rows of small triangles and diamond shapes; this band has a width of 6 cm. and is repeated four times. The pattern is red on a white background.
The fabric is very thinly woven. The surface and reverse are identical in precision of design and saturation of dye.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. 419 on p. 124 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 124 fig. 419
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