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 linked tendrils, stylized trees, and tabs
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Literature notes
Large, white tendrils with red outlines are linked and move around red leaf shapes that contain stylized, white trees. The background is blue. Along the selvedge is a narrow, red band with white rosettes, and at right angles is a blue band with diamonds and dots. Three blue and white tabs are next to this band, against a red background.
Selvedge with white stitches along it, sewn with flax thread. Additional flax thread is around the tabs, and some cotton thread is used for mending the fragment. The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red and brown, but more for the blue. -
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, block-printed with mordant, dyed red and brown, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in white flax, and repair stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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29 x 22 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1076
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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. 1069 on p. 318 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 318 fig. 1069
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
Large, white tendrils with red outlines are linked and move around red leaf shapes that contain stylized, white trees. The background is blue. Along the selvedge is a narrow, red band with white rosettes, and at right angles is a blue band with diamonds and dots. Three blue and white tabs are next to this band, against a red background.
Selvedge with white stitches along it, sewn with flax thread. Additional flax thread is around the tabs, and some cotton thread is used for mending the fragment. The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red and brown, but more for the blue.
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