Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).
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Textile fragment with leaves and quatrefoils
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Literature notes
A blue band with two paired leaves alternating with two different quatrefoils; the outlines are brown, the individual designs are white and red. On either side of the band is a narrow, white border with a row of blue and red stepped diamonds. At right angles to the band is the beginning of five narrow bands, all with red patterns on white or pale blue ground. The patterns are too fragmentary to analyse.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. -
Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant and dyed brown, mordant-dyed red, applied with resist (possibly by hand), and dyed pale-blue
- Dimensions
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16.5 x 13.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.971
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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. 965 on p. 287 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 280 & 287-288, illus. vol. ii p. 287 fig. 965
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A blue band with two paired leaves alternating with two different quatrefoils; the outlines are brown, the individual designs are white and red. On either side of the band is a narrow, white border with a row of blue and red stepped diamonds. At right angles to the band is the beginning of five narrow bands, all with red patterns on white or pale blue ground. The patterns are too fragmentary to analyse.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. -
Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A blue band with two paired leaves alternating with two different quatrefoils; the outlines are brown, the individual designs are white and red. On either side of the band is a narrow, white border with a row of blue and red stepped diamonds. At right angles to the band is the beginning of five narrow bands, all with red patterns on white or pale blue ground. The patterns are too fragmentary to analyse.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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