Textile fragment with serrated crosses
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with serrated crosses
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Associated place
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Date
13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown; with a rolled hem in blue flax
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
23 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 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.
EA1990.496
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Catalogue text
Four-pointed snowflake pattern, with small crosses in between. The centre of the snowflake is dyed red, while otherwise the pattern is white against a brown background. The same pattern appears among the indigo-dyed fragments, as in Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43].
A rolled hem with blue stitching. It is difficult to distinguish between surface and reverse, as both have the same precision of pattern outline and dye saturation.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. 489 on p. 146 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 146 fig. 489
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