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 square, a flower, stars, and Arabic inscription
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Literature notes
A large, blue corner square filled with a red and white flower and ?tendrils; it is surrounded on two sides by bands of stars, and on the other two by bands with inscriptions. The bands are red and white, and they continue beyond the square. The beginning of an additional blue design appears, but it is too fragmentary to identify.
Selvedge along one of the star bands, and a hem sewn with silk. Surface and reverse show virtually identical dye saturation for both red and blue. Of the inscription only the word 'victory' can be made out. -
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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; with stitching in silk
- Dimensions
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18 x 14.5 cm (warp x weft)
24 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1015
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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. 1008 on p. 299 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 299 fig. 1008
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 large, blue corner square filled with a red and white flower and ?tendrils; it is surrounded on two sides by bands of stars, and on the other two by bands with inscriptions. The bands are red and white, and they continue beyond the square. The beginning of an additional blue design appears, but it is too fragmentary to identify.
Selvedge along one of the star bands, and a hem sewn with silk. Surface and reverse show virtually identical dye saturation for both red and blue. Of the inscription only the word 'victory' can be made out.
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