Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A catalogue of Newberry's block-printed textiles by Ruth Barnes (published Oxford, 1997).
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Textile fragment with tendrils, flower-heads, small flowers, and arches
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Literature notes
Two narrow bands with rows of rosettes and small, linked arches, white against a brown ground; these are set on either side of a wider band with separate tendrils and flower-heads. A second wide band has thick, swirling tendrils and small flowers, and a single brown rosette imposed on it. The two wide bands otherwise have their designs in white against a red ground.
Selvedge; the design bands are at right angles to it. The block used for the widest band had a size of 10.5 cm. x 10.5 cm. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface. -
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- 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, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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35 x 23.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
14 / 9 threads/cm (thread count)
block (widest band) 10.5 x 10.5 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.572
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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. 565 on pp. 167-168 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 168, illus. vol. ii p. 167 fig. 565
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
Two narrow bands with rows of rosettes and small, linked arches, white against a brown ground; these are set on either side of a wider band with separate tendrils and flower-heads. A second wide band has thick, swirling tendrils and small flowers, and a single brown rosette imposed on it. The two wide bands otherwise have their designs in white against a red ground.
Selvedge; the design bands are at right angles to it. The block used for the widest band had a size of 10.5 cm. x 10.5 cm. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface.
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