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Textile fragment with grid of quatrefoils and serrated crosses
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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 mordant, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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33.5 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block (grid) 9.5 x 8.5 cm estimated (length x width)
block (both narrow bands) 13 cm estimated (length)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › 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.
- EA1990.1027
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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. 1020 on pp. 302-303 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 302 fig. 1020
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 continuous grid design of diagonally linked quatrefoils and snowflake designs; the quatrefoils have a small rosette at the centre and are alternatively red and blue, the snowflake pattern is always blue. In addition there is a red band with white and blue flowers and rosettes, the flowers with long petals, and a narrow band of red squares with white frames, each filled with a rosette.
The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red. The size of the block used for the continuous grid design was 9.5 cm. x 8.5 cm. It is uncertain whether the two narrow bands were printed from a single block; both were stamped with a block that was 13 cm. long.
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