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Textile fragment with grid of squares and flowers
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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 and brown; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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23.5 x 33 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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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.
- EA1990.571
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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. 564 on p. 167 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 177-178 & 207, illus. vol. ii p. 167 fig. 564
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
A wide band with a grid of squares made by diagonal, brown lines of small, linked crosses, and containing an eight-petalled flower. The flower-head is either red or brown, and at regular intervals the square is filled with red. The background is white. On either side of this band there is a narrow border, brown with small, white rosettes. Additional floral patterns in brown and red were probably the beginning of a wide design field.
Selvedge with remains of stitching along it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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