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Textile fragment with Arabic inscription
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (possible place of creation)
- Date
- probably 15th century (1401 - 1500)
- Material and technique
- cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with remains of stitching, possibly in flax
- Dimensions
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23 x 19.5 cm (warp x weft)
15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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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.
- EA1990.378
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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. 376 on p. 112 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 112 fig. 376
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 77, pl.XXXIIa.
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 wide band of script and a narrow band of cable pattern, white against a red background.
Selvedge and remains of stitching. The outlines of the design are slightly blurred on the reverse. The script cannot be read but is probably of 15th-century date.
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