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 dotted leaves, interlace, and flowers
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Literature notes
A continuous field of stylized, separate leaves, each with a beaded surround and partly filled with white dots, all in white outlines against a red ground. Adjacent to it is a band with two interlacing lines filled with a single row of dots, and with flowers and leaves set between the interlace. This design is red and brown on a white ground.
The reverse is more saturated with dye than the surface, and certainly some resist was stamped onto the surface, but it is likely that the mordant for the brown also was stamped. -
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- 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 resist and probably mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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19 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.811
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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. 809 on p. 238 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 239, illus. vol. ii p. 238 fig. 809
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 stylized, separate leaves, each with a beaded surround and partly filled with white dots, all in white outlines against a red ground. Adjacent to it is a band with two interlacing lines filled with a single row of dots, and with flowers and leaves set between the interlace. This design is red and brown on a white ground.
The reverse is more saturated with dye than the surface, and certainly some resist was stamped onto the surface, but it is likely that the mordant for the brown also was stamped.
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