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Textile fragment with flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with repair stitching in light-blue cotton
- Dimensions
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25 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.880
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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. 874 on p. 257 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 257 fig. 874
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous field of single, large flowers. The flower-heads are seen in side view and have a bushy appearance; each flower is supported by a straight stem, with four narrow leaves emerging. The plant is white with brown outlines, on a red ground. In addition there is a narrow, brown border band at the selvedge, with a continuous white vine and single rosettes.
Selvedge, with the some light blue mending stitches. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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