Textile fragment with hearts and plants
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with hearts and plants
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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; with stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
20 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 10 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.
EA1990.831
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Catalogue text
Large, red heart shapes with a small symmetrical plant inside each; the outlines of the pattern are brown against a white ground. The design alternates with large, oval, red flower heads. There are remains of a band with white tendrils and rosettes on a brown ground.
The reverse shows 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. 829 on p. 244 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 244 fig. 829
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