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Textile fragment with pointed arches
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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 mordant, dyed brown, mordant-dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with a seam and additional stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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20.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.951
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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. 945 on pp. 280-281 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 280, illus. vol. ii p. 280 fig. 945
Varadarajan, Lotika, South Indian Traditions of Kalamkari (Ahmedabad: National Institute of Design and Bombay: Perennial Press, 1983), cat. 10, fig.1
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
A band of pointed arches, red and white with brown outlines filled with blue. This is followed by a row of small red and blue diamonds against a white ground, with narrow, solid red bands along either side. The design is identical to the border band of the previous textile [EA1990.950].
A coarsely done seam and some additional stitching. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Design and technical details suggest that the fragment was part of the same fabric as Cat. no. 944 [EA1990.950]. Also published in Varadarajan 1983: 10, fig. 1.
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