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Textile fragment with plants and an interlacing vine
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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, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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21 x 11.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 20 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.
- EA1990.1114
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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. 1107 on p. 331 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 331-333, illus. vol. ii p. 331 fig. 1107
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. XII c, illus. 56
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
At right angles to the selvedge is a wide band with a continuous, white, interlacing vine on red and blue ground, followed by a narrow band with a white, curving line, a row of dots, and a sawtooth edge. In addition there is an overall design of small, red and white plants. The blue background of this design is almost entirely covered with white, swirling lines.
Selvedge and remains of stitching. The reverse shows more dye saturation for the blue than the surface.
Notice
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