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Textile fragment with Persian-inspired script and interlace
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Details
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- Date
- probably mid - late 19th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed brown and red, with additional green and blue dyes; with remains of a seam in blue flax, and additional stitching in white flax
- Dimensions
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29 x 19 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1176
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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. 1172 on p. 354 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 354 fig. 1172
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
White bands with red inscriptions on either side of a wide band with red half-rosettes and filled with an interlace of tendrils, flowers, and leaves. In addition there is the beginning of a design field with a pictorial scene which is too fragmentary to be able to read it.
Selvedge parallel to a band with inscriptions, and the remains of a seam sewn with blue thread. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The inscription is derived from Persian, but is printed in reverse.
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