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Textile fragment with rosettes and grid of four-pointed shapes
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Details
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- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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39.5 x 18 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 12 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.
- EA1990.68
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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. 60 on p. 16 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 16 fig. 60
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
Small dots form wavy lines, parallel and at right angles to each other, creating a grid of identical, four-pointed shapes, each with a very small rosette at the centre. A border band at one end has (?)floral designs. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The border design in particular is unusual for the Indian fragments. Also unique is the s-twist of the woven threads; it is doubtful, therefore, that the textile was made in India. There is no evidence of the use of a block. The resist may have been applied by hand.
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