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 stylized trees and three-layered rosettes
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Literature notes
Bands at right angles to each other; one with stylized trees, as in Cat. no. 353 [EA1990.360], the other with three-layered rosettes interspersed with small, six-petalled rosettes, and additional narrow bands with rows of dots, stars, and stylized leaves. In general, the design is red against a light ground, although most of the narrow bands reverse the order.
Selvedge, some stitching. Red is added as a filler in some parts, probably applied by hand. The reverse is very slightly less precise in outline than the surface, possibly indicating the use of resist and mordant immersion. -
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, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed brown, and possibly hand-applied with red dye; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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38.5 x 17.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.362
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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. 355 on p. 106 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 106 fig 355
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pls IV b, & XIII a & b, illus. 38-39 & 60
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 41, illus. 73
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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
Bands at right angles to each other; one with stylized trees, as in Cat. no. 353 [EA1990.360], the other with three-layered rosettes interspersed with small, six-petalled rosettes, and additional narrow bands with rows of dots, stars, and stylized leaves. In general, the design is red against a light ground, although most of the narrow bands reverse the order.
Selvedge, some stitching. Red is added as a filler in some parts, probably applied by hand. The reverse is very slightly less precise in outline than the surface, possibly indicating the use of resist and mordant immersion.
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