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Textile fragment with tendrils, flowers, leaves, and bands with flowers and quatrefoils
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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, and dyed red and brown; with repair stitching in pink mercerized cotton
- Dimensions
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24 x 27 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.587
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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. 580 on p. 171 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 171 fig. 580
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 wide band with elaborate tendrils and flowers, and next to it a band of red and white crenellations, as in Cat. no. 579 [EA1990.586]. Additional narrow bands, one with a linked flower chain, next to it a row of quatrefoils, and finally near the selvedge a band with a continuous vine and small arches.There is an alternate use of white pattern on brown and red grounds.
?Selvedge. Stitching with pink thread is likely to be modern repair work. The reverse is very slightly less saturated with dye than the surface.
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