Textile fragment with floral ornaments, flowers, and tendrils
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with floral ornaments, flowers, and 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, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with remains of stitching and a rolled hem in blue flax and white cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
14 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
25 / 18 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.
EA1990.956
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Catalogue text
Large design of uncertain meaning, with floral ornaments at various points of the outlines, and filled with a flower and tendrils. The shapes have fine, brown outlines filled with white, the interior is blue, and the background is red.
Selvedge, and remains of blue and white stitches. In addition there is part of a finely sewn, rolled hem. The surface and reverse show an equal dye saturation for both red and brown, but a complete saturation of blue.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. 950 on p. 282 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 282 fig. 950
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