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 quatrefoils and stars, probably from a garment
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Literature notes
A grid design of very narrow bands, white with brown dots and cartouches, as well as rosettes at the intersections. The background is red, and the squares created have either quatrefoils or stars in their centres.
The fragment is made up from five pieces, all sewn together with fine stitching in flat seams, in order to add a wedge of fabric. The shape of tailoring suggests that the textile was made to be a garment. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. Two of the pieces have a selvedge. -
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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
- five pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with flat seams in flax
- Dimensions
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32 x 27.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4, along length/width 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 5, along length/width 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.718
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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. 711 on pp. 209-210 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 210, illus. vol. ii p. 209 fig. 711 & vol. i pl. 25
Location
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First floor | Room 30 | Mediterranean
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First floor | Room 30 | Mediterranean
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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 grid design of very narrow bands, white with brown dots and cartouches, as well as rosettes at the intersections. The background is red, and the squares created have either quatrefoils or stars in their centres.
The fragment is made up from five pieces, all sewn together with fine stitching in flat seams, in order to add a wedge of fabric. The shape of tailoring suggests that the textile was made to be a garment. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. Two of the pieces have a selvedge.
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