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Textile fragment with squares and rosettes
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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, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching and additional stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 6.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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- 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.
- EA1990.928
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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. 922 on p. 274 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 274 fig. 922
Location
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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 band of squares, one with a red diamond filled with a rosette, the other containing a larger, eight-petalled white rosette. Both squares are filled with blue and have a red border with white dots. Narrow white and red bands and a slightly wider blue band are followed by a blue and red band filled with eight-petalled, white rosettes.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands, with remains of stitching along it. There is additional stitching along the opposite side of the fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.
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