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Textile fragment probably imitating patola pattern, with a grid of stepped diamond-shapes
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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 brown, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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25.5 x 23.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11.5 x 6 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.945
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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. 939 on p. 279 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 279 fig. 939
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous field of stepped diamonds arranged as a diagonal grid. There are three versions of diamonds: solid red, red with white dots, and red with a white cross; the background is light blue. In addition there is a band with two interlaced vines, white with brown outlines on a light blue ground. The band has a narrow border of brown dots.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface for the red and brown, but more so for the blue. The size of the block used was 11.5 cm. x 6 cm. The stepped diamond design relates the pattern to patola textiles.
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