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 possibly columns
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Literature notes
A row of alternating stylized ?columns and rosettes, each supported by a stem, and set onto a base of dots, as in Cat. no. 536 [EA1990.543]. The pattern is white on a dark red ground, with a few of the rosette centres and column capitals filled with blue. The pattern is also similar to Cat. no. 161 [EA1990.169], which is dyed with indigo.
Selvedge at right angles to the design. It is impossible to distinguish between surface and reverse, as the design is equally well defined on either. It also is not possible to discern how the blue was applied; the complete lack of cracking lines on the reverse suggest a surface application rather than immersion. -
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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, possibly block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and applied with blue dye
- Dimensions
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15.5 x 30 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.919
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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. 913 on p. 271 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 271 fig. 913
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 alternating stylized ?columns and rosettes, each supported by a stem, and set onto a base of dots, as in Cat. no. 536 [EA1990.543]. The pattern is white on a dark red ground, with a few of the rosette centres and column capitals filled with blue. The pattern is also similar to Cat. no. 161 [EA1990.169], which is dyed with indigo.
Selvedge at right angles to the design. It is impossible to distinguish between surface and reverse, as the design is equally well defined on either. It also is not possible to discern how the blue was applied; the complete lack of cracking lines on the reverse suggest a surface application rather than immersion.
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