Fragment
1200–1399
- Medium
- Block printing on plain weave cotton ground
- Dimensions
- Overall: 16.5 x 17.8 cm (6 1/2 x 7 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Egypt, Mamluk sultanate (1250–1517)
About
The Indian technique of patterning a textile by printing with carved woodblocks came to the Mamluk world as a result of trade with India. At Fustat, outside of Cairo, numerous fragments of Indian and Mamluk printed textiles have been found. Fish, repeated to form the entire design of this textile, were an indigenous Egyptian motif.