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 flowering trees
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Literature notes
Large, stylized, flowering trees, with small tendrils ending in bunches of ?grapes, as in Cat. no. 821 [EA1990.823]. The design is white against a red ground, with some of the larger forms filled with red as well. Details are brown.
It seems that the mordant for the faint brown outlines of the large trees was block-printed, and that a resist was then applied, possibly drawn by hand. The mordant for dark brown details was added, and the textile was dyed red in an immersion bath. -
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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, probably hand-painted with mordant and dyed brown, applied with resist (possibly by hand), and with mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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20.5 x 11.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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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.
- EA1990.824
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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. 822 on p. 242 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 242 fig. 822
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Large, stylized, flowering trees, with small tendrils ending in bunches of ?grapes, as in Cat. no. 821 [EA1990.823]. The design is white against a red ground, with some of the larger forms filled with red as well. Details are brown.
It seems that the mordant for the faint brown outlines of the large trees was block-printed, and that a resist was then applied, possibly drawn by hand. The mordant for dark brown details was added, and the textile was dyed red in an immersion bath.
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