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Textile fragment with bands and linked quatrefoils
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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 brown, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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21 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 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.
- EA1990.994
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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. 988 on p. 293 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 293 fig. 988
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
Two types of design, one very linear, made up from straight blue, red, or white bands, as well as brown bands filled with small, white rosettes and tendrils. The other design is made up from linked quatrefoils that can also be read as interlocking circles with diamonds at the centre. The two designs are separated by a band of linked medallions filled with tendrils.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, and there are no traces of resist application for the blue.
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