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 bands of rosettes and dotted rhombic shapes
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Literature notes
Two parallel bands, one with rhombic shapes made up from dots, the other with a row of rosettes, of four different varieties that are repeated. Lines of dots separate the bands. The pattern is white against a red or brown ground.
The centres of the rosettes have mostly disintegrated. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Three corroded copper alloy pins are in the textile. There is a single knot of brown thread which has been dyed with the fabric. -
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- 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 resist; with stitching in cotton; mordant-dyed red and brown; three copper alloy pins
- Dimensions
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29 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.563
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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. 556 on p. 165 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 165 fig. 556
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 39, illus. 71
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. Fig. 37, illus. 51
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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
Two parallel bands, one with rhombic shapes made up from dots, the other with a row of rosettes, of four different varieties that are repeated. Lines of dots separate the bands. The pattern is white against a red or brown ground.
The centres of the rosettes have mostly disintegrated. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Three corroded copper alloy pins are in the textile. There is a single knot of brown thread which has been dyed with the fabric.
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