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 ornate squares, stars, and flowers
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Literature notes
Ornate square shapes, green or light blue with red frames and white centres. Set between the squares are red stars and flowers against a white background.
The reverse shows more dye saturation for the red than the surface. Both blue and green were applied to the surface; the green was probably achieved by overlapping yellow and blue. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant for red was alizarin, the source of which either was Oldenlandia umbellata L., or a synthetic alizarin. The latter was not available prior to 1870. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- probably 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and applied with blue and green
- Dimensions
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20 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 25 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.1165
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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. 1161 on p. 351 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 351 fig. 1161
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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
Ornate square shapes, green or light blue with red frames and white centres. Set between the squares are red stars and flowers against a white background.
The reverse shows more dye saturation for the red than the surface. Both blue and green were applied to the surface; the green was probably achieved by overlapping yellow and blue. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant for red was alizarin, the source of which either was Oldenlandia umbellata L., or a synthetic alizarin. The latter was not available prior to 1870.
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