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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Cloth with flower sprigs and probably Arabic script
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Literature notes
Complete cloth with borders of printed tab shapes at either narrow end. The central field has a floral medallion against a red ground covered with flower sprigs repeated throughout; on all four sides are bands with red flowers, partly in medallions. The bands are separated by narrow, brown bands. At one narrow end a strip was inserted with cartouches containing an inscription.
Sewn together from three widths of fabric. The pattern was printed after the fabric had been sewn together. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The first thread count refers to the original fabric, the second to the inserted strip with inscriptions. This strip is sewn in with black cotton thread. The script on the inserted strip seems to be Arabic but cannot be read at present. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- three pieces of yellow cotton, joined with stitching in black mercerized cotton; block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with additional stitching in white thread, possibly cotton
- Dimensions
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182 x 127 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric (sprigs) 11 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric (inscription) 10 / 9 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.903
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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. 897 on pp. 263-264 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 263 fig. 897
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
Complete cloth with borders of printed tab shapes at either narrow end. The central field has a floral medallion against a red ground covered with flower sprigs repeated throughout; on all four sides are bands with red flowers, partly in medallions. The bands are separated by narrow, brown bands. At one narrow end a strip was inserted with cartouches containing an inscription.
Sewn together from three widths of fabric. The pattern was printed after the fabric had been sewn together. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The first thread count refers to the original fabric, the second to the inserted strip with inscriptions. This strip is sewn in with black cotton thread. The script on the inserted strip seems to be Arabic but cannot be read at present.
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