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Textile fragment with dotted octagons, stars, and quatrefoils
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › South-east Asia › Indonesia › Java (probable place of creation)
- Date
- late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930)
- Material and technique
- cotton, resist-dyed blue and light-brown; with a seam and repair stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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35.5 x 27.7 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 39 / 35 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1195
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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. 1191 on pp. 359-360 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 359 fig. 1191
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 linked octagons, stars, and quatrefoils, white and light brown on a blue background. The patterns are made up from small dots.
Seam along one side, as well as some mending stitches. The textile looks like a Javanese batik cap, i.e. stamped batik. It is unusual that the thread twist combines s and z.
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