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Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, lobed squares, and dots
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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
- Dimensions
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32.5 x 25 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.82
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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. 74 on p. 20 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 35-36, illus. vol. ii p. 20 fig. 74
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
Wide and narrow bands; the two wide bands have an identical design of rows of diamond shapes, with blue lobed squares and a white dot at the centre. Small arches and dots make up narrow bands on either side of a central band with a single row of six-and eight-petalled rosettes; this arrangement is repeated at the edge of the fragment.
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