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Textile fragment with bands of flowers, palmettes, and circles
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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, dyed red and brown, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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26 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14 cm estimated (length)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.908
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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. 902 on p. 268 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 268 fig. 902
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 band with small flowers supported by a long stem, alternating with palmettes, white on a red ground. This is followed by a narrow band of small, white circles on red, partly overlayed with blue, and a single row of brown dots on a white ground. The beginning of a pattern of interlaced vines is also visible, white with brown outlines on a red ground.
Brown and red only partly saturate the reverse. Additional traces of blue appear where the resist has cracked. The length of one side of the block used was 14 cm.
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