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Textile fragment with stylized trees or leaves
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, hand-applied with resist and mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; additional cotton fragment; with remains of a seam and additional stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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33 x 23 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 19 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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1128
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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. 1121 on p. 337 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 239, 273, 338, & 341-342, illus. vol. ii p. 337 fig. 1121
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. IX c & e, illus. 51
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. fig. 43, illus. 55
Bérinstain, Valérie, ‘Early Indian Textiles Discovered in Egypt’, Marg, 40/3, (1989), cat. fig. 9, illus. 23
Location
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- currently out on loan
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design field with stylized leaves or trees; the pattern is an elaborate development of the stylized plants seen in Cat. no. 1113 [EA1990.1120]. They are blue with red and white leaves, against a blue background filled with white tendrils.
The remains of a seam follow a curve of the fabric, and a very small additional cotton fragment is attached at this point. There is further stitching on various parts of the fabric, some of it apparently random. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. There is no evidence of block printing.
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