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 stylized bodhi leaves, chevrons, and zigzag
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Literature notes
A row of stylized bodhi tree leaves, white against a red ground, is followed by a narrow band of chevrons and a wider band with a zigzag and a trefoil in each triangular space. The band of chevrons is then repeated. With the exception of the leaves, the pattern is brown or red against a white ground.
There is a selvedge with some stitching along it, done with coarse, white thread. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye, but possibly the mordant for the brown details was stamped. -
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 resist and possibly mordant, and dyed red and brown; with stitching in white flax
- Dimensions
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17.5 x 12 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 14 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.
- EA1990.575
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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. 568 on p. 168 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 169, illus. vol. ii p. 168 fig. 568
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 row of stylized bodhi tree leaves, white against a red ground, is followed by a narrow band of chevrons and a wider band with a zigzag and a trefoil in each triangular space. The band of chevrons is then repeated. With the exception of the leaves, the pattern is brown or red against a white ground.
There is a selvedge with some stitching along it, done with coarse, white thread. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye, but possibly the mordant for the brown details was stamped.
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