Textile fragment with grid of squares and flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with grid of squares 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 and brown; with remains of 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
23.5 x 33 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 17 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.
EA1990.571
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Catalogue text
A wide band with a grid of squares made by diagonal, brown lines of small, linked crosses, and containing an eight-petalled flower. The flower-head is either red or brown, and at regular intervals the square is filled with red. The background is white. On either side of this band there is a narrow border, brown with small, white rosettes. Additional floral patterns in brown and red were probably the beginning of a wide design field.
Selvedge with remains of stitching along it. The reverse shows less dye saturation 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. 564 on p. 167 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 177-178 & 207, vol. ii p. 167 fig. 564
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