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 flowers, leaves, and tendrils
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Literature notes
A continuous field of tendrils, leaves, flowers, some of which are large, ornate and tear-drop shaped. The design is white on a red ground. In addition there is a narrow brown and white border along the selvedge.
Selvedge. The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used for the continuous pattern was 10 cm. x 8.5 cm. The dye analysis has shown that both red and brown were produced by using the colorant morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root. -
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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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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13 x 25.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
block 10 x 8.5 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.822
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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. 820 on p. 241 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 241 fig. 820
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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
A continuous field of tendrils, leaves, flowers, some of which are large, ornate and tear-drop shaped. The design is white on a red ground. In addition there is a narrow brown and white border along the selvedge.
Selvedge. The reverse shows considerably less dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used for the continuous pattern was 10 cm. x 8.5 cm. The dye analysis has shown that both red and brown were produced by using the colorant morindone, the source of which was a variety of morinda root.
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