Textile fragment with rosettes, chevrons, and possibly floral designs
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes, chevrons, and possibly floral designs
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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
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 26 cm max. (warp x weft)
10 / 15 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.
EA1990.674
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Catalogue text
Bands of red and white chevrons are set beside wider bands, one with rosettes, half-rosettes, and triangles defined by brown outlines, the other with ?floral designs and small arches near the border, red and brown against a white ground.
A selvedge at right angles to the bands. The reverse shows considerably 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. 667 on p. 197 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 197 fig. 667
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