Textile fragment with interlocking diamond-shapes and quatrefoils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with interlocking diamond-shapes and quatrefoils
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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 resist, and mordant-dyed red and dark-red
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Object type
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Dimensions
31 x 8.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 11 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.
EA1990.736
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Catalogue text
A continuous row of interlocking diamond shapes are separated by a narrow band of single dots from a field of quatrefoils or linked circles. The design can be red as either white on red, or red on white.
The reverse is heavily saturated with dye. There are only faint traces of a darker red in the design of quatrefoils.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. 729 on p. 214 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 214 fig. 729
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