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).
Publications online: 1180 objects
- Reference URL
Actions
Textile fragment with rosettes and band with floral shapes
-
Literature notes
Six-petalled rosettes made up from dots, with a dot at the centre; band with floral motifs: one daisy-shaped with twelve petals, the other a quatrefoil with four additional small leaves. The band has three rows of dots along both sides. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
A finely sewn seam holds together the fragments at their selvedge. The internal measurements can be refined and are: a) warp 12 cm., weft 16 cm.; b) warp 11 cm., weft 11 cm. The textile was sewn together prior to block-printing and dyeing. It is curious that the thread used for the seam is s-spun, which is not common in Indian cotton thread. Also published in Barnes 1990: 191, fig. 7. -
Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- two pieces of cotton, joined with a seam in cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in white flax
- Dimensions
-
27 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 1 (flowers) 12 x 16 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 2 (rosettes) 11 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
- Material index
- Technique index
-
assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.121
-
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. 113 on p. 30 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 57, illus. vol. ii p. 30 fig. 113
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Trade Cloth in Egypt: The Newberry Collection’, Textiles in Trade: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium (Washington, D. C.: Textile Society of America, 1990), cat. 191, fig.7
Location
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Six-petalled rosettes made up from dots, with a dot at the centre; band with floral motifs: one daisy-shaped with twelve petals, the other a quatrefoil with four additional small leaves. The band has three rows of dots along both sides. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
A finely sewn seam holds together the fragments at their selvedge. The internal measurements can be refined and are: a) warp 12 cm., weft 16 cm.; b) warp 11 cm., weft 11 cm. The textile was sewn together prior to block-printing and dyeing. It is curious that the thread used for the seam is s-spun, which is not common in Indian cotton thread. Also published in Barnes 1990: 191, fig. 7.
Notice
Object information may not accurately reflect the actual contents of the original publication, since our online objects contain current information held in our collections database. Click on 'buy this publication' to purchase printed versions of our online publications, where available, or contact the Jameel Study Centre to arrange access to books on our collections that are now out of print.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum