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Textile fragment with bands of interlocking chevrons and linked medallions
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Details
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- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue and green-blue; with stitching, possibly in cotton
- Dimensions
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52 x 26.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.275
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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. 266 on p. 77 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 77, illus. vol. ii p. 77 fig. 266
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 48, 106
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
Parallel bands alternating in design; one band has interlocking chevrons, the other has linked medallions filled with stylized flowers. The chevrons are large versions of the design in Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30], but here arranged in bands and not continuous.
The bands of chevrons are identical to the design on a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 40.)
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