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 rosettes set into linked stars
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Literature notes
The large fragment has border bands of small and large rosettes, as well as a tear-drop edge. The main design field has rosettes set into linked stars. The design is mainly white on a red ground.
The large, continuous star design is similar to tile arrangements. Two selvedges, with blue stitching along one. As both selvedges remain, the width of the fabric set up on the loom can be determined. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. [Vol. i p. 67 states that a similar design is suggested by Pfister to be Near Eastern; however, this fragment is from Gujarat.] -
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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
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; with stitching in blue flax
- Dimensions
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77 x 69 cm max. (warp x weft)
12 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.331
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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. 323 on p. 96 (vol. ii), vol. i p. 67, illus. vol. ii p. 96 fig. 323
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
The large fragment has border bands of small and large rosettes, as well as a tear-drop edge. The main design field has rosettes set into linked stars. The design is mainly white on a red ground.
The large, continuous star design is similar to tile arrangements. Two selvedges, with blue stitching along one. As both selvedges remain, the width of the fabric set up on the loom can be determined. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. [Vol. i p. 67 states that a similar design is suggested by Pfister to be Near Eastern; however, this fragment is from Gujarat.]
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