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Textile fragment with circles, flowers, rosettes, and kufic-style script

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kufic

  • kufic

    A term denoting various styles of angular Arabic script. Emerged in the early centuries of Islam, kufic soon became the preferred hand to copy holy texts.

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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

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    A continuous design field with circles containing dots or flowers, and with spiraling rosettes and tendrils attached. A band with a herring bone border has an inscription. The resist defines the design.

    The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The fabric is very similar in design to fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 45, 59, & 60.) The inscription imitates Kufic script, but has no meaning. 12th or 13th century?

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