Textile fragment with flowers, rosettes, and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with flowers, rosettes, and squares
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with seams in blue cotton, and with repair stitching in white cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
48 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 19 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 17 / 19 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.
EA1990.98
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Catalogue text
Four-petalled flowers and single dots are arranged regularly to form a grid of squares, inside each is either an eight-petalled rosette with a central dot or a cluster of four small squares which can be read as a larger square with a blue cross inside. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Two seams run at right angles to each other, using blue thread. Additional mending with white thread. The longer seam adds fabric that does not quite match, but has the same pattern as Cat. no. 87 [EA1990.95].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. 90 on p. 24 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 26, vol. ii p. 24 fig. 90
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