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Textile fragment with ornate squares, flowers, and crosses
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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 red, possibly with traces of purple; with remains of stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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17.5 x 26.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 x 9 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.366
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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. 359 on p. 107 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 107 fig. 359
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. 28, illus. 44
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ornate squares, flower-shapes, and crosses, each with a rosette at the centre. The square has a vine-filled frame, and each cross has two thick tendrils emerging from two of its arms. In general the design is white against a red ground.
Selvedge and traces of stitching. The size of the block used was 9 cm. x 9 cm. The reverse is much less saturated with dye than the surface. There might be traces of a second colour, possibly once purple, in the centre of the square.
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