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Textile fragment with dots, Z-shapes, and stars
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- three pieces of fabric, possibly cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue; joined with run-and-fell seams in white and blue flax
- Dimensions
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30 x 21 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 13 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 12 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.59
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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. 51 on p. 14 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 14 fig. 51
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
Small dots arranged in bands of geometric designs. A wide band of large z-shapes alternating with stars has narrow bands with dot design on either side. At a right angle to this are narrow bands of stars, zigzag, and very small ?floral shapes. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Two run-and-fell seams at right angle to each other, one following the selvedge. The resist may have been applied by hand. [The two smaller fragments have a thread count of 17x17 and 12x16; see sketch on conservation card.]
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