Textile fragment with stylized flowers
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with stylized 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, probably hand-painted with mordant, dyed brown, and resist- and mordant-dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in white flax and blue thread, possibly flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 15 cm max. (warp x weft)
25 / 24 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.
EA1990.826
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Catalogue text
Large stylized flowers surrounded by tendrils with bunches of ?grapes, as in Cat. no. 821 [EA1990.823.a, EA1990.823.b]. The design is white against a red ground with brown details.
Selvedge, with some remains of white stitching; there also is blue stitching that is more crudely executed. Design and technical details link the fragment with Cat. no. 821 [EA1990.823].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. 824 on p. 243 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 242, vol. ii p. 243 fig. 824
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