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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).

Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Textile fragment with flowers and dotted tendrils

  • Literature notes

    Thick, white tendrils are filled with brown dots and have flowers attached. They are arranged in an interlace of regular shapes, possibly forming medallions. All design has brown outlines against a background of red.

    There is a border of five small triangles sewn on; two red and one blue are cotton, two with stripes are possibly silk. The fabric is turned back to form the triangle and is sewn across at the seam with the main fabric.

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    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; two red and one blue cotton triangles; two striped triangles, possibly silk; joined with a seam, possibly in flax
    Dimensions
    19.5 x 16.5 cm max. (length x width)
    along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    Material index
    cotton,
    cotton,
    silk,
    silk,
    flax
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    relief print,
    mordant dyed,
    stitched,
    more
    Object type index
    dish-cover,
    textile,
    pillow
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.748

  • 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. 741 on p. 218 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 218 fig. 741

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