Textile fragment with small rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with 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 mordants, and dyed red and brown; with repair 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
28 x 25 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 cm estimated (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.
EA1990.476
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Catalogue text
A continuous design of small rosettes, each with twelve petals and a comparatively large red dot at the centre. The rosettes are brown against a white background.
Stitching, possibly done recently to hold the fragment together. The width of the block used was 10 cm.; it is possible that the block had a rhombic, rather than rectangular, shape. The reverse is less saturated with dye 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. 469 on pp. 140-141 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 141 fig. 469
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