Textile fragment with tendrils and vine leaves
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with tendrils and vine leaves
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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, dyed pink, and resist-dyed blue; with repair stitching in cotton
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
30 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.960
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Catalogue text
Continuous, large tendrils with vine leaves emerging. The tendrils and leaves are pink with white outlines, against an either pink or light blue ground. The blue ground is filled with pink dots and also contains round, pink discs with pearl borders.
Mending stitches. For the pink, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, while there is considerably more 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. 954 on p. 283 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 283 fig. 954
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