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 bands of flowers
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Literature notes
Red bands containing a row of small, pale blue flowers alternate with white bands with tiny, brown spots and a single row of blue and white flowers. A solid red band is set between.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The light blue seems to be applied to the surface. -
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- Associated place
- Date
- probably 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant and dyed brown, mordant-dyed red, and dyed light-blue
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 12 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- 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.
- EA1990.1154
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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. 1149 on p. 348 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 348 fig. 1149
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
Red bands containing a row of small, pale blue flowers alternate with white bands with tiny, brown spots and a single row of blue and white flowers. A solid red band is set between.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The light blue seems to be applied to the surface.
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