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Textile fragment with spirals in braided circles, and stars
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Details
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- Date
- 13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400)
- Material and technique
- linen, block-printed, and applied with dark-grey; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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26 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.441
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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. 434 on p. 128 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 128 fig. 434
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 75, pl.XXVIIIb
Kühnel, Ernst, Islamische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Gräbern in der islamischen Kunstabteilung und in der Stoffsammlung des Schlossmuseums (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1927), cat. 86, pl.50
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 wide band with circles framed by a braided border, filled with either a spiral or an eight-petalled flower, and stars filled with interlace, similar to Cat. no. 433 [EA1990.440]; on either side is a checkerboard band. The pattern is dark grey against a white ground.
Selvedge, with remains of stitching parallel to it. The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation than the surface. The textile is Near Eastern in origin.
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