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 bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation and rosettes
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Literature notes
A continuous field of diagonal lines makes a grid pattern; the lines are bandhani imitation dots, and there is a rosette in the centre of each grid square. The resist defines the pattern, the background is red, and the rosettes are brown with small, white dots.
Selvedge; remains of stitching follow closely the selvedge line. It seems that two widths of cloth had been sewn together prior to printing the pattern, as the sewing thread has traces of the red dye. The pattern continues beyond the selvedge. The brown rosettes have partly disappeared because of a caustic substance contained in the mordant. The reverse is saturated with dye. -
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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; with remains of stitching in cotton; block-printed with resist, and dyed red and brown with different mordants or substances
- Dimensions
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28.5 x 27.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.479
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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. 472 on pp. 141-142 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 141 fig. 472
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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 field of diagonal lines makes a grid pattern; the lines are bandhani imitation dots, and there is a rosette in the centre of each grid square. The resist defines the pattern, the background is red, and the rosettes are brown with small, white dots.
Selvedge; remains of stitching follow closely the selvedge line. It seems that two widths of cloth had been sewn together prior to printing the pattern, as the sewing thread has traces of the red dye. The pattern continues beyond the selvedge. The brown rosettes have partly disappeared because of a caustic substance contained in the mordant. The reverse is saturated with dye.
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