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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 circles and quatrefoils

  • Literature notes

    A band of blue circles and quatrefoils, each with a light red surround and a background of white, crossed lines on light red. On either side is a narrow border with an undulating white line and ?stylized leaves, followed by a white sawtooth edge on light red ground, and the beginning of a pattern too fragmentary to identify.

    The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The patterns are very pale and are partly difficult to read.

  • 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 resist, mordant-dyed light-red, and resist-dyed blue
    Dimensions
    19.5 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
    along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    Material index
    cotton,
    cotton
    Technique index
    plain woven,
    plain woven,
    relief print,
    resist dyed,
    resist dyed,
    more
    Object type index
    textile
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.974

  • 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. 968 on p. 288 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 288 fig. 968

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