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 quatrefoils and medallions
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Literature notes
Fragment of a large floral design, white with blue and red details on a red ground, followed by bands of red and white, small wheels, and a wider band with blue, white, and red quatrefoils set into medallions. This is sewn on to a smaller fragment with the same designs of bands.
Two fragments of the same fabric are sewn together with an open seam, and additional stitching continuous along the side of the longer fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. As for Cat. no. 1042 [EA1990.1049] and the following fragments, the resist may have been added by hand. -
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
- two pieces of cotton, applied with resist (possibly by hand), mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; joined with an open seam in flax; with additional stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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46 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1053
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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. 1046 on p. 310 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 310 fig. 1046
Location
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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
Fragment of a large floral design, white with blue and red details on a red ground, followed by bands of red and white, small wheels, and a wider band with blue, white, and red quatrefoils set into medallions. This is sewn on to a smaller fragment with the same designs of bands.
Two fragments of the same fabric are sewn together with an open seam, and additional stitching continuous along the side of the longer fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. As for Cat. no. 1042 [EA1990.1049] and the following fragments, the resist may have been added by hand.
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