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Textile fragment with linked chevrons and flowers, possibly from a garment
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching, possibly forming a buttonhole, in white flax, and additional stitching in white and blue flax
- Dimensions
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32.5 x 27 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.136
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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. 128 on p. 34 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 6-7, illus. vol. ii p. 34 fig. 128 & vol. i pl. 18
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.VIId, illus. 47
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 1,2,3, illus. 33,34,35
Irwin, John, and Margaret Hall, Indian Painted and Printed Fabrics, Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, 1 (Ahmedabad: Calico Museum of Textiles, 1971), cat. Pl.4c, illus. 11
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
Band of ornate chevrons, and an additional band on either side, one fragmentary, the other with two types of rosettes and a stylized plant, the leaves of which flank a central axis; the combination of patterns is identical to Cat. no. 23 [EA1990.31]. The chevrons can be read as either blue or white, and one of the rosette versions is blue against a white background; otherwise the background of the floral band is blue.
Some white stitching, as though part of a large buttonhole. Additional stitching in blue. Beyond the floral band a small piece of the textile extends, with a further example of the chevron design, but at a right angle to the main band. The width of the main band of chevrons is 9 cm., identical to Cat. no. 23 [EA1990.31]. This fragment was given a C-14 date of 1400 CE+/-40.
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