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Newberry Collection

Explore Percy and Essie Newberry's important collection of textiles including Islamic embroideries and Indian block-printed fragments.

Detail of block-printed textile fragment with band of rosettes and flowers, Gujarat, 1250-1350 (Museum No: EA1990.140)

Further reading

Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Resist-Dyed Textiles: The Newberry Collection’, The Ashmolean (Spring/Summer 1992), pp. 10-12

Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)

Barnes, Ruth, ‘A Stitch in Time: Medieval Islamic Embroideries’, The Ashmolean (Spring 2001), pp. 13-14

Ellis, Marianne, Embroideries and Samplers from Islamic Egypt (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, in association with Greenville: Curios Works Press, 2001)

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