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Textile fragment with bands of medallions, quatrefoils, and stylized plants
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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
- Dimensions
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41.5 x 8.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 17 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,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.
- EA1990.915
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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. 909 on p. 270 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 277-278, illus. vol. ii p. 270 fig. 909
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 of various designs: two with medallions filled with floral designs, two with diagonal rows of small quatrefoils, one with parallel rows of very small, linked ovals, and finally the widest band which has two types of stylized plants, possibly trees, as in Cat. no. 905 [EA1990.911]. In general the patterns are white on a red ground, but in the bands of stylized trees and the medallions, some parts are filled with blue.
Selvedge, with all bands arranged to move at right angles to it. The reverse shows slightly more dye saturation than the surface.
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