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 leaves, rosettes, and vine
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Literature notes
A narrow band of paired leaves alternating with small rosettes, white with brown outlines and some red details on a blue ground. A row of small triangles and dots, brown and red on white ground, separate this band from a second design that shows a large white continuous vine, with brown outlines and some blue details in the attached flower-heads. In addition there is the beginning of a pearl border.
The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for red and brown, but additional blue. -
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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11 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.978
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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. 972 on p. 289 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 289 fig. 972
Location
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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 narrow band of paired leaves alternating with small rosettes, white with brown outlines and some red details on a blue ground. A row of small triangles and dots, brown and red on white ground, separate this band from a second design that shows a large white continuous vine, with brown outlines and some blue details in the attached flower-heads. In addition there is the beginning of a pearl border.
The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for red and brown, but additional blue.
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