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Textile fragment with interlocking spirals
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 13th - 14th century (1201 - 1400)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and probably brown
- Dimensions
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78 x 53 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.305
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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. 296 on p. 88 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 86-89 & 150-151, illus. vol. ii p. 88 fig. 296 & vol. i pl. 14
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. VIII c, illus. 49
Kühnel, Ernst, Islamische Stoffe aus ägyptischen Gräbern in der islamischen Kunstabteilung und in der Stoffsammlung des Schlossmuseums (Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1927), cat. 87, pl.50
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
The large fragment has a continuous pattern of interlocking spirals, identical to Cat. no. 288 [EA1990.297], as well as a border with bands of chevrons.
C-14 analysis dates the textile to 1255 CE +/- 55. Selvedge. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The main design field is dyed red only, but two of the narrow border bands were apparently dyed brown.
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