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Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with geometric patterns and arrow-shapes
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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; with stitching in blue flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 13.5 cm (warp x weft)
22 / 17 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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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.73
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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. 65 on p. 18 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 18-19, illus. vol. ii p. 18 fig. 65
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 47, pl.VIId
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
Small squares with a blue centre, in imitation of bandhani (tie-dye), arranged as geometric designs, one of which is arrow shaped. The wide design has three rows of bandhani shapes on either side and an unbroken white line beyond. The design moves at a right angle to the selvedge. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Some blue stitching. Selvedge.
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