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 circles, flowers, and tabs
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Literature notes
A continuous field of large, red tendrils with leaves, circles, and flowers, all including some white dots and set on a light blue ground. Along the selvedge the field has a narrow, red border with white rosettes, while at right angles there is a brown, white, and blue border of linked diamonds. Along this band are three tabs, each filled with a cartouche and a stylized plant, with brown outlines on a light blue ground and against a red background.
Selvedge. The tabs have no hems, but the fabric has been cut between them. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and brown, but more for blue. -
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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, dyed red and brown, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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35 x 24 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 18 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,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.
- EA1990.1073
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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. 1066 on p. 317 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 321, illus. vol. ii p. 317 fig. 1066 & vol. i pl. 5
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
A continuous field of large, red tendrils with leaves, circles, and flowers, all including some white dots and set on a light blue ground. Along the selvedge the field has a narrow, red border with white rosettes, while at right angles there is a brown, white, and blue border of linked diamonds. Along this band are three tabs, each filled with a cartouche and a stylized plant, with brown outlines on a light blue ground and against a red background.
Selvedge. The tabs have no hems, but the fabric has been cut between them. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and brown, but more for blue.
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