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 curving shapes and tendrils
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Literature notes
A field of large, curving shapes is set against a background of dense, small tendrils. The large curves are red with white outlines and narrow pearl borders, while the tendrils are white against a red background that has mostly been dyed blue as well. There also is a band with a row of diamonds and borders of brown dots. The diamonds are brown and have been dyed over with blue.
For the red, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, while there is considerably more blue. -
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 mordant, dyed brown and red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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49 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.961
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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. 955 on p. 283 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 283 fig. 955
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 field of large, curving shapes is set against a background of dense, small tendrils. The large curves are red with white outlines and narrow pearl borders, while the tendrils are white against a red background that has mostly been dyed blue as well. There also is a band with a row of diamonds and borders of brown dots. The diamonds are brown and have been dyed over with blue.
For the red, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, while there is considerably more blue.
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