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 stylized plants in pots, and a large circular design
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Literature notes
Two large stylized plants, each placed in a pot; in the centre is a heart-shaped leaf, red with white dots, and two large brown leaves with white dots emerge from the pot on either side. A large circular design has a white frame with red and brown flowers, and on two sides of the fragment are brown bands with white tendrils and rosettes.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. It is apparent that the brown design elements were first printed, and the different mordant for the red was then filled in, possibly partly by hand. The dye analysis has shown that for both brown and red the colorant was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. -
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- 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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed and possibly partly hand-applied with mordant, and dyed brown and red; joined with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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46.5 x 31 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.686
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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. 679 on p. 200 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 225, illus. vol. ii p. 200 fig. 679
Location
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- currently in research collection
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