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Textile fragment with ovals and stylized floral shapes
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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue and green-blue; joined with a flat seam in white flax; linen patches; with additional stitching in white and blue flax
- Dimensions
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31.5 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 19 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
additional fabric 2 (checkered), along length/width 22 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.253
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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. 244 on p. 70 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 70 fig. 244
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Oval shapes with stylized floral shapes inside, seen in side-view. The ovals have trefoil terminals. The resist defines the design, the background is green-blue. The flower inside each oval is dyed the same colour, while the oval itself is blue.
Two pieces are sewn together with a flat seam, at an angle to the design. On the reverse two patches have been sewn on, one light blue, the other checkered white and blue. These are made of flax fibre, the checkered one with an s-spin. The thread-counts for both are 15 x 16 (light blue) and 22 x 26 (checkered white and blue).
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