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 linked cartouches and stars
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Literature notes
A continuous design of linked cartouches and stars arranged as a grid, white on brown and brown on white respectively. Within each grid section is an ornate rosette, white with brown outlines and red details on a red ground.
The fragment is sewn together from two pieces, with a carefully stitched flat seam. There is a second seam at right angles, but only very small fragments of the added textile remain. The larger textile has a selvedge along the first seam, and its measurements are 22 cm. (warp) x 19 cm. (weft). The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. -
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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with a flat seam in flax, and with an additional seam in flax
- Dimensions
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total 23.5 x 22.5 cm (length x width)
largest piece 22 x 19 cm (warp x weft)
both pieces 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9.5 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width)
- 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.
- EA1990.742
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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. 735 on p. 216 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 216 fig. 735
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 design of linked cartouches and stars arranged as a grid, white on brown and brown on white respectively. Within each grid section is an ornate rosette, white with brown outlines and red details on a red ground.
The fragment is sewn together from two pieces, with a carefully stitched flat seam. There is a second seam at right angles, but only very small fragments of the added textile remain. The larger textile has a selvedge along the first seam, and its measurements are 22 cm. (warp) x 19 cm. (weft). The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
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