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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).

Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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Textile fragment with linked cartouches and stars

  • Literature notes

    A continuous design of linked cartouches and stars arranged as a grid, white on brown and brown on white respectively. Within each grid section is an ornate rosette, white with brown outlines and red details on a red ground.

    The fragment is sewn together from two pieces, with a carefully stitched flat seam. There is a second seam at right angles, but only very small fragments of the added textile remain. The larger textile has a selvedge along the first seam, and its measurements are 22 cm. (warp) x 19 cm. (weft). The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
  • Details

    Associated place
    Africa Egypt (find spot)
    AfricaEgyptCairoCairo Fustat (possible find spot)
    AsiaIndiawest India Gujarat (place of creation)
    Date
    2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
    Material and technique
    two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with a flat seam in flax, and with an additional seam in flax
    Dimensions
    total 23.5 x 22.5 cm (length x width)
    largest piece 22 x 19 cm (warp x weft)
    both pieces 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    block 9.5 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width)
    Material index
    organicvegetalfibre cotton,
    organicvegetalfibre flax
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.742
  • 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. 735 on p. 216 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 216 fig. 735

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  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    A continuous design of linked cartouches and stars arranged as a grid, white on brown and brown on white respectively. Within each grid section is an ornate rosette, white with brown outlines and red details on a red ground.

    The fragment is sewn together from two pieces, with a carefully stitched flat seam. There is a second seam at right angles, but only very small fragments of the added textile remain. The larger textile has a selvedge along the first seam, and its measurements are 22 cm. (warp) x 19 cm. (weft). The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
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