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Gilding Textiles and Printing Blocks in Tenth-Century Egypt
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The surviving portion of the tenth-century Egyptian Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Tamīmī's recently edited Ṯīb al-ʿarūs has several formulas relating to the dying and perfuming of textiles. Some refer to the use of carved molds to impress designs upon textiles. Tamīmī's formulas treat in particular the application of gold leaf and perfumed dye pastes with blocks, but presuppose the technology of using blocks to apply designs to textiles and include a vocabulary of technical terms for the process. This textual evidence provides additional context for surviving early medieval Islamic block-printed gilded textiles. The attestation of the use of blocks to decorate textiles is contemporary with the use of blocks to print Arabic amulet texts, known by the tenth century from extant specimens and some literary evidence.
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“The term qālib (pl.qawālib) for mold is the same as that used to describe the blocks (ṭarsh) for printing amulets”
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- Not matchedcites Bosworth 1976: 18 (text) and 201 (trans.); Bulliet 1987: 430-31.
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“There are some distinctly different block-printed textiles from Islamic times that have been identified as Middle Eastern rather than Indian.”
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- Not matchedcites Gittinger 1982: 31-57; Barnes 1997, 1: 52-61
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“Among the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are fragments of an Islamic block-printed textile.”
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- Not matchedcites Mackie 2015: 482 n. 104
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“In his formulas, however,”
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“At least one wooden printing block from Achmim is known.”
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- Not matchedcites Forrer 1894: 11-13
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“These procedures were the final stage of olfactory and visual ornamentation of a garment.”
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“Tenth-century perfumers were also well acquainted with the practice of using molds to form aromatic pastes into shapes and figurines.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites King 2017: 64, 291 source
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“but these are almost entirely imports from Gujarat in India rather than Middle Eastern productions.”
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“one of his formulas for designing on textiles using an imitation gold gilding procedure he credits to a certain Ibn Zirr.”
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“In fact, to judge by the formulas, the color produced was incidental to the scent.”
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“Significantly, al-Tamīmī notes that carving the delicate images was a job for a professional carver, not one that the artisan decorating the textile would undertake.”
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“This term may have been chosen because the blocks had the physical appearance of a cup, the widest part being the printing surface.”
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“This surviving portion includes 290 individual formulas for different varieties of perfumes and procedures involving aromatics, including the making of dentifrices and the dyeing and scenting of clothing.”
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“Likewise clothing was perfumed with incense and aromatic compounds and dyed for use.”
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- Not matchedcites Johnson 2008
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“The Cleveland piece is on mulḥam (silk warp and cotton weft), block printed with figures of lions in”
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- Not matchedcites Mackie 2015: 158, 160 fig.4.34
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“In Islamicate civilization, perfuming was considered an aspect of decoration; thus, in cookbooks, for example, procedures are given for decorating, coloring, and perfuming dishes for the table.”
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- Not matchedcites Marín 1994
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“Here, where it is clear that he is critiquing an earlier procedure, from an unnamed authority, and improving it, al-Tamīmī notes the crucial technical step of using the mold to apply the adhesive.”
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“The term for frame, malban, in this sense appears to be unique.”
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- Not matchedcites Dozy 1927, 2: 515
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“A textile with a block-printed image of Ganymede has been attributed to the Sasanians.”
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- Not matchedcites Schaefer 1938: 859-60
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“M. S. Dimand, the mid-twentieth century curator, identifies the Metropolitan portion as linen and dates it to the tenth century.”
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- Not matchedcites Dimand 1958: 255-56
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“the earliest surviving block-printed textiles from the Mediterranean come from fourth-century Achmim in Egypt.”
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- Not matchedcites Forrer 1894: 10-12; Schaefer 1938: 856-57
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“The procedures described by al-Tamīmī may have been intended for lesser-quality textiles, to”
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- Not matchedcites Mackie 2015: 123
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“Muḥammad b.Aḥmad b.Saʿīd al-Tamīmī (d.370/980), born in Jerusalem, was a physician who worked in Egypt.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ullmann 1970: 315 source
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“Thus, alongside Indian imports, an indigenous form of block printing was indeed practiced in the medieval Middle East: 13 gold leaf and pigment were applied to textiles to decorate them.”
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“Only part of this work, a manuscript in Andalusī script now in Tehran consisting of some chapters of the formulary, is extant; it has only recently become available through the publication of facsimiles and an edition.”
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- Not matchedcites Al-Tamīmī 2014a
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“It is generally recognized that printing on textiles is a forerunner of printing on paper.”
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- Not matchedcites Tsien 1985: 310-11
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“The garment had to be dyed before the gilding was undertaken; 25 gilding and perfuming were thus the final steps taken before use.”
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“This procedure would produce a sticky surface to receive the gold leaf only in the places corresponding to the design.”
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“Among his works is a book on aromatics called Kitāb Ṭīb al-ʿarūs wa-rayḥān al-nufūs fī ṣināʿat al-ʿuṭūr (The perfume of the bride and the sweet flower of the souls of the making of perfumes) or Kitāb Jayb al-ʿarūs wa-rayḥān al-nufūs (The bosom of the bride and the sweet flower of the souls).”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Ullmann 1970: 315 source
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“A radiocarbon-dated collection of more than 1,200 block-printed textile fragments in the Ashmolean Museum has dates ranging from the tenth through fifteenth centuries”
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“As noted, extant block-printed gilded textiles from the period feature designs of lions, easily encompassed under al-Tamīmī's predatory beasts.”
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“Louise Mackie dates this piece to the eleventh or twelfth century and attributes it to Iran or Iraq.”
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- Not matchedcites Mackie 2015: 161
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“Many block-printed textiles were recovered from Egyptian sites such as Quseir al-Qadim.”
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- Not matchedcites Pfister 1938
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“He considers fish glue as stable and equally suitable as an adhesive.”
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“The editors of al-Tamīmī's text argue that jāmāt, which usually means cups or goblets, especially of precious metal, means here printing blocks (qawālib al-ṭibāʿa).”
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“Al-Tamīmī's formulas are not intended for permanent dyes, applied to textiles during the manufacturing before production of the garment, but for temporary perfumes, gildings, and pigments, applied after production, which would not necessarily survive washing.”
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“Bulliet inclines toward an independent invention of printing in the Middle East, and bravely suggests that Islamic printing technologies may have influenced the development of printing in Europe.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites Bulliet 1987: 435-36 source
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“Sukk was a dark-colored aromatic compound; in the tenth century it was made especially from the oak gall compound rāmik.”
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites King 2017: 155-56 source
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“Al-Tamīmī's procedures and the block-printed textile specimens noted above suggest that the use of blocks for printing textiles was known, at least in certain circles, in medieval Middle Eastern culture, just like the rediscovery of ṭarsh has shown that printing texts on paper was hardly unheard of.”
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- Not matchedcites Schafer 2006: 38
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“The semantic range of the word, which usually means”
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“Here al-Tamīmī mentions professional gilders; their method of applying gold leaf by carefully tapping it into place so that it was evenly applied was evidently familiar.”
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“The ancient development of printing in China, starting with textiles by the Former Han and later moving on to texts, is well known.”
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- Not matchedcites Carter 1955; Tsien 1985: 311
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“The mere existence of a technology is not enough to guarantee its success.”
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“While the technology is different from block printing, this description illuminates our understanding of the practice of designing upon textiles”
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“Perhaps, as Casson suggests, a similar attitude existed vis-à-vis the work of the embroiderer, as textiles decorated as al-Tamīmī describes could not match the durability of the Indian productions made with mordant and resist dyeing.”
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- Not matchedcites Casson 1983
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“The appearance of iṭbaʿ (imperative of ṭ-b-ʿ) is noteworthy given that this word will become the ordinary word used for the printing process.”
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“Yet printing did not become common for either texts or textiles in the medieval Middle East despite the presence of the technology among some circles.”
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“The numerous examples of blockprinted text amulets from early medieval Islamicate times are printed correctly, and thus the blocks were carved in reverse.”
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“Dozens of examples of medieval Islamic amulets block printed on paper are known today, found in the dry conditions of Egypt.”
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- Not matchedcites Schaefer 2006
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“Al-Tamīmī includes other formulas for making imitation gold for use on textiles (nos.243, 244, 246).”
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“While al-Tamīmī's formulas nos.240 and 241 call for actual gold in the gilding process, no.242 uses an imitation gold applied with blocks.”
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“Lionel Casson argues that the νόθοι (”
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- Not matchedcites Casson 1983: 201-2
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“Thus, al-Tamīmī is describing the application of a scented pigment using carved molds to produce designs upon textiles, a form of block printing.”
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“Assurances like these are familiar from formulas for adulterated perfumes, 55 these procedures may therefore have been intended to deceive potential purchasers.”
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- Not matchedcites Garbers 1948, nos. 4, 11, 17, etc.
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“I have checked it against the facsimile of the manuscript published by Iḥsān Muqaddas (2014b).”
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- Not matchedcites al-Tamīmī 2014b
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“There was thus more than a whiff of disrespectability about printing amulets; 52 a handwritten amulet text included a devotional aspect through the personal labor of producing it that made it more efficacious.”
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- Not matchedcites Schaefer 2006: 15-20
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“At the same time as Egyptians were block printing designs on textiles, others were block printing text on paper.”
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“A crucial difference that sets al-Tamīmī's procedures apart from those for the block-printed textiles familiar from India is that they do not call for a mordant or resist dyeing procedure nor for the dyes used on contemporary Indian block-printed textiles such as indigo or madder.”
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“Al-Tamīmī's textiles were not decorated to last.”
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“Another possibility is that the market was already saturated with Indian block-printed textiles, thus making their production in the Middle East less necessary.”
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- Not matchedcites Burke and Whitcomb 2004: 92-93
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“As part of his argument, he adduces the bias found in medieval times against printed textiles as cheap substitutes for properly woven and embroidered fabrics.”
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- Not matchedcites Casson 1983: 201 and n. 24; Robinson 1969: 11, 14
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“The basic technology of impressing designs using blocks-as with seals-is very ancient both in the Middle East and in East Asia.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- King, A. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Southern Indiana (US)
- Corresponding author
- King, Anya H.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Publisher
- American Oriental Society
- Published
- 2021-09-19
- Volume
- 140
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0003-0279 (ISSN-L)
- 2169-2289
- OpenAlex
- W3041706003
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 21
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 9.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of the American Oriental Society (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Libraries, Manuscripts, and Books
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Keywords
- block printing, printing blocks, gold leaf, textile dyeing, textile decoration
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