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Textile fragment with serrated crosses
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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 resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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22 x 19 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.47
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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. 39 on p. 11 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 11 fig. 39
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 8, illus. 40
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
Four-pointed snowflake pattern, with small crosses in between, as in Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43]. The resist defines the pattern.
The fragment is badly soiled.
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