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Textile fragment with carnations, rosettes, and tulips

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    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    Egypt (place of creation)
    Date
    probably 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)
    Ottoman Period (1281 - 1924)
    Material and technique
    three pieces of fabric, possibly linen, block-printed, applied with grey, and dyed yellow; two pieces joined with a seam in flax before block-printing, and the third piece probably block-printed first, and joined with stitching in flax
    Dimensions
    39.5 x 14 cm (length x width)
    ground fabric 1, along length/width 22 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 2 20 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 3, along length/width 18 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
    Material index
    linen,
    linen,
    flax
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    stitched,
    stitched,
    relief print,
    more
    Object type index
    textile
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.450

  • 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. 443 on p. 130 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 135, illus. vol. ii p. 130 fig. 443

Location

    • currently in research collection

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Publications online

  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    A border band which includes a corner; it shows carnations, rosettes, and tulips [bell-shaped flowers], as well as leaves similar to Cat. no. 441 [EA1990.448], but the cloth here is much finer. An additional design field has trefoils, made up from three circles. The pattern is dark against a light background, with some rosettes in yellow.

    The fragment is sewn together from three pieces, with a selvedge along the long seam of the central piece. This seam has been sewn prior to printing. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The design is Ottoman, probably of 17th- or 18th-century date.

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