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Textile fragment with rosettes and trefoils
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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, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and possibly hand-applied with brown dye
- Dimensions
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15.5 x 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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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.
- EA1990.355
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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. 348 on p. 103 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 103 fig. 348
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 large, eight-petalled rosettes with a dot at the centre of each, and with trefoils set into the space between. On either side of the band there is a line of zigzag, as well as fragments of a large design, possibly floral. This has some brown added. The pattern is white against a red background and similar to Cat. no. 347 [EA1990.354].
The design is equally precise on surface and reverse; but [as] the colour is more intense on the surface[, the mordant was probably stamped]. The brown details may have been drawn by hand. It is likely that the fragment was part of Cat. no. 347 [EA1990.354].
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