Textile fragment with spirals in braided circles, and stars
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with spirals in braided circles, and stars
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Associated place
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Date
14th century (1301 - 1400) -
Material and technique
linen, block-printed, and applied with dark-grey
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
28 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 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.
EA1990.440
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Catalogue text
Circles with a braided border and either a spiral inside, or a pair of birds; stars filled with interlace and linked to each other by knots. The pattern is dark grey against a white background.
The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The fragment is Near Eastern in origin. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was tannin, which may have been applied to the textile with a pigment.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. 433 on p. 128 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 128, vol. ii p. 128 fig. 433
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