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Textile fragment with bands of interlacing tendrils
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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, block-printed with mordant, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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23.5 x 20 cm max. (warp x weft)
22 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.986
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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. 980 on p. 291 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 291 fig. 980
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 56, pl. XII c
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 bands of interlacing tendrils that have small leaves emerging. The tendrils are white, with fine red outlines on a blue ground. The bands are separated by three bands with continuous vines, of which the central one is realistic, while the two outer ones are very stylized. In addition, one of the interlace bands has borders with single rows of white and red dots.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands. For the red, the reverse shows very slightly less dye saturation than the surface, while there is more blue.
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