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
13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400) -
Material and technique
linen, block-printed, and applied with dark-grey; with remains of stitching in flax
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
26 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
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.
EA1990.441
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Catalogue text
A wide band with circles framed by a braided border, filled with either a spiral or an eight-petalled flower, and stars filled with interlace, similar to Cat. no. 433 [EA1990.440]; on either side is a checkerboard band. The pattern is dark grey against a white ground.
Selvedge, with remains of stitching parallel to it. The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation than the surface. The textile is Near Eastern in origin.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. 434 on p. 128 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 128 fig. 434
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