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Textile fragment with bands of dotted patterns and vine
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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 red and brown
- Dimensions
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42 x 34 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
blocks 12 x 6.5 cm estimated (length x width)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.537
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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. 530 on p. 158 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 165-166, illus. vol. ii p. 158 fig. 530
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 49, pl.VIIIb
Location
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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
Bands made up from dots; one with a wavy line representing a vine, with additional leaves attached, another with the dots forming small clusters, possibly representing plants. The designs are similar to Cat. no. 527 [EA1990.534]. Some of the bands are placed diagonally or at right angles to each other. The design is white on a red ground, and the general background is brown.
The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation than the surface. Separate blocks were used for the individual bands, although they were the same size, measuring 12 cm. x 6.5 cm.
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