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 linked circles and rosettes
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Literature notes
A continuous pattern that can be read in two ways: either as linked circles with a red rosette at the centre, or as blue quatrefoils, with the small rosettes set between the leaves. In addition there are two bands with small arches, red and blue in alternation. These are placed at right angles to each other.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. One fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim possibly has the same design of linked quatrefoils or circles (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 57). The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used for the red was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. Also published in Barnes 1990: 190, fig. 5. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 13th century - 1st half of the 14th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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35 x 23.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1099
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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. 1092 on p. 327 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 29, 95, 108, 146, 328, & 351, illus. vol. ii p. 327 fig. 1092
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Trade Cloth in Egypt: The Newberry Collection’, Textiles in Trade: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium (Washington, D. C.: Textile Society of America, 1990), cat. 190, fig.5.
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 54 & 114
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Textiles for Island Taste: Gujarati Cloth in Eastern Indonesia’, Ars Orientalis, 34, (2004), p. 138, illus. p. 138 fig. 2
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous pattern that can be read in two ways: either as linked circles with a red rosette at the centre, or as blue quatrefoils, with the small rosettes set between the leaves. In addition there are two bands with small arches, red and blue in alternation. These are placed at right angles to each other.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. One fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim possibly has the same design of linked quatrefoils or circles (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 57). The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used for the red was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. Also published in Barnes 1990: 190, fig. 5.
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