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Textile fragment with arches and rosettes
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (possible place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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16 x 20 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 9 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.636
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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. 630 on p. 185 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 185-186 & 198, illus. vol. ii p. 185 fig. 630
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
A band of arches filled with floral patterns, in brown outline against a white ground. This is followed by a band filled with red rosettes and superimposed brown lines. A fragmentary second band of arches is adjacent to this band. All patterns are brown or red against a white ground, and there is a solid band of red close to the selvedge.
A selvedge is parallel to the bands. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The fragment is very loosely woven; it is similar to Cat. no. 629 [EA1990.491].
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