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 bands of squares, diamond-shapes, and rosettes
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Literature notes
A band of brown squares and diamonds, each containing a white, eight-petalled rosette; the diamond is set against a light blue background. The band has borders of rows of dots on either side; these are brown on blue and white on brown. These are followed by a narrow, brown band with a white continuous vine with separate leaves.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands. The surface and reverse show an equal dye saturation. There is no evidence of resist applied, and the blue was possibly not applied by immersion. The textile has also been published by Varadarajan (1983: 11, fig. 3). -
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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, mordant-dyed brown, and possibly painted with blue dye
- Dimensions
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18 x 26.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 20 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.926
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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. 920 on p. 273 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 273-274, illus. vol. ii p. 273 fig. 920
Varadarajan, Lotika, South Indian Traditions of Kalamkari (Ahmedabad: National Institute of Design and Bombay: Perennial Press, 1983), cat. 11, fig.3
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 band of brown squares and diamonds, each containing a white, eight-petalled rosette; the diamond is set against a light blue background. The band has borders of rows of dots on either side; these are brown on blue and white on brown. These are followed by a narrow, brown band with a white continuous vine with separate leaves.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands. The surface and reverse show an equal dye saturation. There is no evidence of resist applied, and the blue was possibly not applied by immersion. The textile has also been published by Varadarajan (1983: 11, fig. 3).
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