Textile fragment with linked, inverted hearts, and a tab with vines
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with linked, inverted hearts, and a tab with vines
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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, and applied with grey; 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
54 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 9 / 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.
EA1990.462
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Catalogue text
Wide, grey borders at right angles to each other and a tab. The borders have a design of linked, inverted hearts, the tab is filled with vines. All patterns are made up from small crosses, obviously in imitation of cross-stitch embroidery.
The reverse shows very little dye saturation.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. 455 on p. 134 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 134 fig. 455
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