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 squares and rosettes
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Literature notes
Two bands, each with a row of squares. The squares contain either a white, eight-petalled rosette that fills the entire shape, or a smaller rosette with pink outlines and set into a white circle. They are separated by large, pink and white dots, and the bands have a border of small, white dots. The background is dark blue. In addition, there is the beginning of another pattern, showing a continuous vine and leaves, white and pink on a blue ground. The design is similar to Cat. no. 920 [EA1990.926].
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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed pink and blue; joined with a flat seam in flax
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 22 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.927
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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. 921 on pp. 273-274 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 273 fig. 921
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
Two bands, each with a row of squares. The squares contain either a white, eight-petalled rosette that fills the entire shape, or a smaller rosette with pink outlines and set into a white circle. They are separated by large, pink and white dots, and the bands have a border of small, white dots. The background is dark blue. In addition, there is the beginning of another pattern, showing a continuous vine and leaves, white and pink on a blue ground. The design is similar to Cat. no. 920 [EA1990.926].
A flat seam runs between the two bands of squares.
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