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 imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with squares
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Literature notes
A square within a square; the triangular spaces outside the large square are filled with small clusters of squares and quarter-circles. As the block print is repeated, these triangles also form a square, with a full circle at the centre. The entire design is made up from small square shapes with a dot at the centre, in bandhani imitation. The pattern is white against a red ground.
There is a selvedge, and fine stitching along it, using red thread, possibly silk. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used was 11.5 cm. x 11.5 cm. -
Details
- 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; with stitching in red thread, possibly silk
- Dimensions
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14.5 x 14.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
21 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11.5 x 11.5 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.628
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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. 621 on p. 183 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 183 fig. 621
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), cat. Fig. 29, illus. 44
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 square within a square; the triangular spaces outside the large square are filled with small clusters of squares and quarter-circles. As the block print is repeated, these triangles also form a square, with a full circle at the centre. The entire design is made up from small square shapes with a dot at the centre, in bandhani imitation. The pattern is white against a red ground.
There is a selvedge, and fine stitching along it, using red thread, possibly silk. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The size of the block used was 11.5 cm. x 11.5 cm.
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