Textile fragment with rosettes and stepped diamond-shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with rosettes and stepped diamond-shapes
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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, dyed blue, and possibly mordant-dyed brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
37.5 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.920
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Catalogue text
Two parallel bands, one with a row of blue, eight-petalled rosettes linked by pearl-border surrounds, the other with a row of blue, stepped diamonds. The bands both have borders with a single row of white dots on blue ground.
It is uncertain at the moment whether the fragment was dyed with indigo only, or whether it includes some mordant dyeing, as parts of the textile are now brown. The reverse shows more 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. 914 on p. 271 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 271 fig. 914
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