Textile fragment with spirals in braided frames
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with spirals in braided frames
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Associated place
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Date
13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed, and applied with grey; with remains of stitching in flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
15 x 41.5 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.
EA1990.442
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Catalogue text
Spirals set into a tear-shaped, braided frame with trefoil peaks and a small fish on either side. Two additional squares with nine small squares inside. The pattern is grey against a light background.
Selvedge, and remains of stitching opposite the selvedge. The fragment is badly discoloured. It 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. 435 on p. 128 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 129, vol. ii p. 128 fig. 435
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