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Textile fragment with serrated crosses (front)

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Textile fragment with serrated crosses Egypt, 13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400)

  • Details

    Associated place
    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
    Dimensions
    23 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width), along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    Material index
    cotton, flax
    Technique index
    woven, relief print, resist dyed, mordant dyed, stitched
    Object type index
    textile
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.496

  • Further reading

    Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), 8, |40

    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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    • currently in research collection

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