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 circles, flowers, rosettes, and kufic-style script
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Literature notes
A continuous design field with circles containing dots or flowers, and with spiraling rosettes and tendrils attached. A band with a herring bone border has an inscription. The resist defines the design.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The fabric is very similar in design to fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 45, 59, & 60.) The inscription imitates Kufic script, but has no meaning. 12th or 13th century? -
Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 11th century - 1st half of the 13th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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34 x 33 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 18 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.323
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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. 314 on p. 93 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 93 fig. 314
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. 50, 55-6, 108, 113, 122.
Glossary
kufic
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kufic
A term denoting various styles of angular Arabic script. Emerged in the early centuries of Islam, kufic soon became the preferred hand to copy holy texts.
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
A continuous design field with circles containing dots or flowers, and with spiraling rosettes and tendrils attached. A band with a herring bone border has an inscription. The resist defines the design.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The fabric is very similar in design to fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 45, 59, & 60.) The inscription imitates Kufic script, but has no meaning. 12th or 13th century?
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