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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
- cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown; with a rolled hem in blue flax
- Dimensions
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23 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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- 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.
- EA1990.496
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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. 489 on p. 146 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 146 fig. 489
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.
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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 centre of the snowflake is dyed red, while otherwise the pattern is white against a brown background. The same pattern appears among the indigo-dyed fragments, as in Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43].
A rolled hem with blue stitching. It is difficult to distinguish between surface and reverse, as both have the same precision of pattern outline and dye saturation.
Notice
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