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).
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Textile fragment with shapes, possibly grapes
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Literature notes
A rectangular field with regular, diagonal rows of red ?grapes on a yellow ground. There is a border on three sides, with red flower-heads against a green ground, and fringes on the fourth side.
Two selvedges. In addition to the above measurements, there is a border sewn on that measures warp 33 cm., weft 2.5 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The green is likely to be light blue dyed over yellow. The textile has a merchant's stamp on it. It is of late 19th- or early 20th-century date. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930)
- Material and technique
- six pieces of cotton, block-printed, mordant-dyed red, and dyed yellow, pink, and green; border; fringe; joined with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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47 x 35.5 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 14 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 5 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 6 17 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
border 33 x 2.5 cm (warp x weft)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1222
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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. 1216 on p. 368 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 368 fig. 1216
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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
A rectangular field with regular, diagonal rows of red ?grapes on a yellow ground. There is a border on three sides, with red flower-heads against a green ground, and fringes on the fourth side.
Two selvedges. In addition to the above measurements, there is a border sewn on that measures warp 33 cm., weft 2.5 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The green is likely to be light blue dyed over yellow. The textile has a merchant's stamp on it. It is of late 19th- or early 20th-century date.
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