Textile fragment with flowers and dotted tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers and dotted tendrils
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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; two red and one blue cotton triangles; two striped triangles, possibly silk; joined with a seam, possibly in flax
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Object type
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Dimensions
19.5 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 16 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.
EA1990.748
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Catalogue text
Thick, white tendrils are filled with brown dots and have flowers attached. They are arranged in an interlace of regular shapes, possibly forming medallions. All design has brown outlines against a background of red.
There is a border of five small triangles sewn on; two red and one blue are cotton, two with stripes are possibly silk. The fabric is turned back to form the triangle and is sewn across at the seam with the main fabric.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. 741 on p. 218 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 218 fig. 741
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