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 leaves, a stepped square, and wheels
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Literature notes
Two bands, one with linked wheels in red, blue, and white, the other red with white, symmetrical leaf shapes alternating with a blue stepped square and flower. Blue and red borders separate the bands. In addition there is a design with large leaves and tendrils, defined by fine, white lines on a blue and red ground.
The resist may partly have been applied by hand. For the blue, the reverse shows considerably more dye saturation than the surface. The design relates to the group of textiles around Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129]. -
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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, applied with mordant, and with resist (possibly partly by hand), and dyed red and blue
- Dimensions
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28 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 26 / 31 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,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1060
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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. 1053 on p. 313 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 313, illus. vol. ii p. 313 fig. 1053
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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
Two bands, one with linked wheels in red, blue, and white, the other red with white, symmetrical leaf shapes alternating with a blue stepped square and flower. Blue and red borders separate the bands. In addition there is a design with large leaves and tendrils, defined by fine, white lines on a blue and red ground.
The resist may partly have been applied by hand. For the blue, the reverse shows considerably more dye saturation than the surface. The design relates to the group of textiles around Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129].
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