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Textile fragment with large and small rosettes
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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 possibly dyed green
- Dimensions
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26.5 x 17 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
block 8 x 8 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.422
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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. 415 on p. 123 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 123 fig. 415
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
Large, red rosettes are surrounded by smaller rosettes, four eight-petalled white rosettes alternating with four very small red ones. The pattern is red on a light background, parts of which may have been dyed in an additional colour.
Selvedge; the pattern is printed to continue beyond it. The reverse is only partly penetrated by the dye. The design was printed with a block the size of 8 cm. x 8 cm. Three of the smallest red rosettes have six petals, while the fourth only has five. This mistake recurs throughout the fabric.
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