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Textile fragment with trefoil and leaves
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 14th century - 1st half of the 15th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, applied with resist (probably by hand), and mordant-dyed red, dark-brown, and pink
- Dimensions
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22 x 5.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 24 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,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.
- EA1990.716
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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. 709 on p. 209 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 209 fig. 709
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
A brown trefoil emerges from two symmetrically placed white leaves; pink stylized leaves with white outlines are arranged around a square containing four brown trefoils. The background is red.
The outlines of the design are irregular and probably drawn by hand. Some parts of the pattern have disintegrated due to the iron content of the mordant. The reverse indicates the use of a resist application prior to mordant dyeing. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used to produce dark brown, pink, and red was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.
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