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Details

Associated place

Egypt (find spot), Gujarat (place of creation)

Date

13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400)

Material and technique

cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed red and brown; remains of flax stitching

Dimensions

23 x 8.5 cm (length x width), 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)

Material index

flax, cotton

Technique index

resist dyed, relief print

Object type index

textile

No. of items

1

Credit line

Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1946.

Accession no.

EA1990.496
Further reading

Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), vol. ii 489, vol. ii 146

Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum, The University of Michigan, Kelsey Museum studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), 8, 40