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 circles and petals
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Literature notes
The main design field has fragments of three large circles, each with twelve-petalled rosettes in the centre and petals as a frame; in addition there is a small, six-spoked spiral. Next to this are two bands with beaded edges, one with linked, beaded circles and a rosette at the centre of each, the other with linked diamond shapes. The design of the main field is white against a red ground, while the bands are red against white.
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Details
- 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, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed brown; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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35 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.327
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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. 318 on p. 94 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 95 & 166, illus. vol. ii p. 94 fig. 318
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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
The main design field has fragments of three large circles, each with twelve-petalled rosettes in the centre and petals as a frame; in addition there is a small, six-spoked spiral. Next to this are two bands with beaded edges, one with linked, beaded circles and a rosette at the centre of each, the other with linked diamond shapes. The design of the main field is white against a red ground, while the bands are red against white.
Stitching. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.
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