Textile fragment with arches and flower-heads on tabs
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with arches and flower-heads on tabs
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Associated place
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Date
14th century (1301 - 1400) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed light-blue and dark-blue; with stitching in blue flax, and remains of stitching in white flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
29 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
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.
EA1990.230
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Catalogue text
Two arches with smaller arches inside and flower head fillers in the spandrels, as in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219]. A band of abstract ?leaf shapes is at the base of the arches. Although the resist generally defines the design, these leaves have resist-drawn outlines and are blue. The background is dark blue, while the successively smaller arches alternate between light and dark.
Blue stitching was used to shape a tab of each of the two large arches. There are additional fragments of white stitching.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. 222 on p. 64 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 64, vol. ii p. 64 fig. 222
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