Textile fragment with bands of vines, flowers, chevrons, and ovals
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with bands of vines, flowers, chevrons, and ovals
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Associated place
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Date
probably 18th century (1701 - 1800) -
Material and technique
two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed brown, pink, and red; joined with 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
29 x 24 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 12 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 9 / 12 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.
EA1990.1155
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Catalogue text
Two fragments sewn together, of similar, but not identical patterns. Both have alternating white and pink stripes. The white stripes each have a fine, brown continuous vine and red flowers, while the pink stripes have small chevrons in one fragment, and small, linked ovals in the other.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fabric is made up from two separate textiles.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. 1150 on p. 348 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 348 fig. 1150
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