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Textile fragment with geometric design
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe (probable place of creation)
- Date
- early 20th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, printed and applied with grey and dyed red; with stitching, probably sewn by machine, in cotton
- Dimensions
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27 x 20 cm (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1205
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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. 1201 on p. 363 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 363 fig. 1201
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
Geometric, angular design in red and grey.
Two parallel, straight rows of stitching, probably sewn by machine. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The design is early 20th century.
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