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Textile fragment with serrated crosses
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400)
- Material and technique
- three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with open seams in flax; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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19 x 17.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 20 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 22 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.43
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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. 35 on p. 10 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 10-11, 146, 152, 154, 160, & 165, illus. vol. ii p. 10 fig. 35
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. 8, illus. 40
Location
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- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Four-pointed snowflake pattern, with small crosses in between. The space between the motif alternates between light and dark blue. The resist defines the pattern, although the blue areas could also be seen as stylized motifs against a light ground.
Selvedge, two open seams parallel to it. Further evidence of stitching.
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