Textile fragment with dots arranged in geometric patterns

Details

  • Title

    Textile fragment with dots arranged in geometric patterns

  • Associated place

    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible) (possible find spot)
    India (place of creation)
  • Date

    2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
  • Material and technique

    cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue

  • Material index

    cotton
  • Technique index

  • Object type

  • Dimensions

    15 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
    along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
  • No. of items

    1

  • Credit line

    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.

  • Museum location

  • Museum department

    Eastern Art

  • Accession no.

    EA1990.61

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  • Catalogue text

    Geometric, diagonally set design arranged in two wide and two narrow bands at right angles to each other, with single lines of small dots between each band. The pattern is made up of small dots. The resist creates the design, the background is blue.

    The resist might have been applied by hand.

    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. 53 on p. 15 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 17, vol. ii p. 15 fig. 53

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