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Textile fragment with arches and flower-heads on tabs
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 14th century (1301 - 1400)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed light-blue and dark-blue; with stitching in blue flax, and remains of stitching in white flax
- Dimensions
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29 x 12.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.230
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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. 222 on p. 64 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 64, illus. vol. ii p. 64 fig. 222
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. fig. 11
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Two arches with smaller arches inside and flower head fillers in the spandrels, as in Cat. no. 211 [EA1990.219]. A band of abstract ?leaf shapes is at the base of the arches. Although the resist generally defines the design, these leaves have resist-drawn outlines and are blue. The background is dark blue, while the successively smaller arches alternate between light and dark.
Blue stitching was used to shape a tab of each of the two large arches. There are additional fragments of white stitching.
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