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 rosettes and leaves
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Literature notes
A continuous field of two types of large rosettes surrounded by trumpet-shaped leaves, each with a beaded border. All outlines are brown, the designs primarily white with pink details, and the background is pink.
The fragment is made up from two pieces connected by an open seam; both white and blue thread is used. One fragment has a selvedge, and its measurements are: warp 40 cm., weft 12 cm. Apparently the mordant for the brown outlines was first stamped and dyed, then a resist was stamped, and the fabric was dyed pink. -
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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant and dyed brown, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed pink; joined with an open seam in blue and white flax
- Dimensions
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40 x 25 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 20 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 17 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 1 40 x 12 cm (warp x weft)
- 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.
- EA1990.808
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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. 806 on p. 237 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 237 fig. 806
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 field of two types of large rosettes surrounded by trumpet-shaped leaves, each with a beaded border. All outlines are brown, the designs primarily white with pink details, and the background is pink.
The fragment is made up from two pieces connected by an open seam; both white and blue thread is used. One fragment has a selvedge, and its measurements are: warp 40 cm., weft 12 cm. Apparently the mordant for the brown outlines was first stamped and dyed, then a resist was stamped, and the fabric was dyed pink.
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