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 stars
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Literature notes
A very large rectangle with its main field filled with white, six-pointed stars on a red ground. There is a narrow, brown border along each selvedge, and a wide band of white, stylized trees on a brown ground at each of the narrow ends.
Two selvedges. At one end is an open warp, where the fabric was to be cut. The textile is sewn together from four pieces, but this seems to be a recent mending, following the pattern of the fabric. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, and the outlines of the blocks used are clearly visible on this side; their size was 14 cm. x 10 cm. -
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- probably mid - late 19th century
- Material and technique
- four pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with repair stitching in mercerized cotton
- Dimensions
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127 x 89 cm max. (warp x weft)
10 / 9 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14 x 10 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.902
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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. 896 on p. 263 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 263 fig. 896
Bühler, Alfred, Ikat, Batik, Plangi: Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika, 3 vols (Basel: Pharos-Verlag H. Schwabe, 1972), I:171; III:Pl.282.
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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 very large rectangle with its main field filled with white, six-pointed stars on a red ground. There is a narrow, brown border along each selvedge, and a wide band of white, stylized trees on a brown ground at each of the narrow ends.
Two selvedges. At one end is an open warp, where the fabric was to be cut. The textile is sewn together from four pieces, but this seems to be a recent mending, following the pattern of the fabric. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, and the outlines of the blocks used are clearly visible on this side; their size was 14 cm. x 10 cm.
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