Textile fragment with floral shapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with floral 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 mordant, dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
21.5 x 19 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 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.
EA1990.998
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Catalogue text
A band of indistinct, red and white floral shapes on a blue ground, and next to it a red border with interlaced vines, white with brown outlines.
Selvedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation for brown and red, but considerably more for the 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. 992 on p. 294-295 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 294 fig. 992
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