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 two linked medallions and tendrils
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Literature notes
Two large, linked medallion filled with concentric red, white, and blue circles; the medallions are set into a wide band. Two large, red tendrils filled with dots emerge from one of the medallions, and the light blue background is filled with irregular, white lines. Along one side of the band is a narrow, white border.
Remains of a seam appear along the white border band. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The resist was apparently drawn on by hand. -
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, applied with resist (probably by hand), mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed light-blue; with remains of a seam, possibly in flax
- Dimensions
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22 x 20.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1135
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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. 1128 on p. 340 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 309, illus. vol. ii p. 340 fig. 1128
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
Two large, linked medallion filled with concentric red, white, and blue circles; the medallions are set into a wide band. Two large, red tendrils filled with dots emerge from one of the medallions, and the light blue background is filled with irregular, white lines. Along one side of the band is a narrow, white border.
Remains of a seam appear along the white border band. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The resist was apparently drawn on by hand.
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