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 vines and flowers
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Literature notes
Two bands with continuous vines, both white with fine, purple outlines. One is set on a red ground, the other on blue. The vine of the red band turns onto itself, with blue leaves and a flower emerging. The vine on blue ground has small red flowers or berries attached, grouped in clusters of three, as well as leaves emerging. The bands are separated by narrow, red and blue borders.
It seems that the fine outlines were first stamped with a mordant, and then the mordant for the red and the resist for the blue were added, with dye immersions between the applications. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 14th century (1301 - 1400)
- Material and technique
- cotton, painted with mordant, dyed purple and red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in mercerized cotton
- Dimensions
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25.5 x 17 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 29 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.970
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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. 964 on pp. 286-287 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 286 fig. 964
Location
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Two bands with continuous vines, both white with fine, purple outlines. One is set on a red ground, the other on blue. The vine of the red band turns onto itself, with blue leaves and a flower emerging. The vine on blue ground has small red flowers or berries attached, grouped in clusters of three, as well as leaves emerging. The bands are separated by narrow, red and blue borders.
It seems that the fine outlines were first stamped with a mordant, and then the mordant for the red and the resist for the blue were added, with dye immersions between the applications.
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