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Textile fragment with quatrefoils and stars, probably from a garment

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    Gujarat (place of creation)
    Date
    2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
    Material and technique
    five pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with flat seams in flax
    Dimensions
    32 x 27.5 cm max. (length x width)
    ground fabric 1, along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 3, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 4, along length/width 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 5, along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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    Material index
    cotton,
    cotton,
    flax
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    relief print,
    mordant dyed,
    mordant dyed,
    more
    Object type index
    garment,
    textile
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.718

  • 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. 711 on pp. 209-210 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 210, illus. vol. ii p. 209 fig. 711 & vol. i pl. 25

Location

    • First floor | Room 30 | Mediterranean

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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 grid design of very narrow bands, white with brown dots and cartouches, as well as rosettes at the intersections. The background is red, and the squares created have either quatrefoils or stars in their centres.

    The fragment is made up from five pieces, all sewn together with fine stitching in flat seams, in order to add a wedge of fabric. The shape of tailoring suggests that the textile was made to be a garment. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. Two of the pieces have a selvedge.

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