Textile fragment with quatrefoils and squares
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with quatrefoils 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
cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed purple and red, and applied with blue dye (probably by hand); with stitching in cotton
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Object type
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Dimensions
26.5 x 16 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 20 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.
EA1990.992
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Catalogue text
Ornate quatrefoils and squares are set up diagonally to form a continuous pattern. The background is white, and the design is defined by fine, purple outlines. Both quatrefoil and square have a blue frame; the quatrefoil is filled with purple ornaments against a white ground, with red and blue at the centre, and the square is red with an ornate white flower at the centre. Additional purple and red details fill the space between.
Selvedge; the design is printed to extend beyond it. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red, purple, and blue. This suggests that the blue was not dyed by immersion, but was directly applied.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. 986 on p. 293 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 293 fig. 986
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