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 stepped squares, linked by Maltese crosses
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Literature notes
A continuous pattern of stepped squares, the inside red with a small square at the centre, and linked to each other by Maltese crosses. The design has white outlines against a brown background, but is filled with brown or red.
Remains of stitches along one edge. The reverse is very slightly blurred. A similar fragment has been found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 56). The dye analysis has shown that both shades of red and brown were produced by using an alizarin and purpurin colorant, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. 17th or 16th century; C-14 dating gave a date of 1690 CE+/-90. -
Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 17th - 18th century (1601 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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22 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.480
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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. 473 on p. 142 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 142, 153, & 164, illus. vol. ii p. 142 fig. 473 & vol. i pl. 8
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.VIIId, illus. 49
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), illus. 53
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
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 pattern of stepped squares, the inside red with a small square at the centre, and linked to each other by Maltese crosses. The design has white outlines against a brown background, but is filled with brown or red.
Remains of stitches along one edge. The reverse is very slightly blurred. A similar fragment has been found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 56). The dye analysis has shown that both shades of red and brown were produced by using an alizarin and purpurin colorant, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L. 17th or 16th century; C-14 dating gave a date of 1690 CE+/-90.
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