Textile fragment with spirals, dots, and rosettes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with spirals, dots, and rosettes
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Associated place
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Date
2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
19 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 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.
EA1990.518
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Catalogue text
A wide band with small spirals, dots, and short lines; on either side of it is a narrower band with a row of four different versions of rosettes. Additional designs appear beyond these bands, but only one is recognizable: it shows a snowflake pattern, as in Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43]. The designs are white on a dyed ground; the rosette bands are on a red background, the other two are on a brown background. See also Cat. no. 324 [EA1990.332].
The design is printed diagonally to the weave structure. It is very precisely printed, both on the surface and on the reverse.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. 511 on p. 152 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 153-154, 161, & 163-165, vol. ii p. 152 fig. 511
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