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Textile fragment with swirling 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 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in white cotton and blue thread, possibly flax
- Dimensions
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17.5 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9 cm estimated (width)
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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.
- EA1990.49
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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. 41 on pp. 11-12 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 12, 85-86, & 153-154, illus. vol. ii p. 11 fig. 41
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.XVa, illus. 59
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 .4 a, illus. 11,12
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Separate leaves irregularly arranged. The resist defines the pattern.
Selvedge, remains of stitching. The width of the block used was 9 cm., the length uncertain.
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