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Textile fragment with flowers, rosettes, and squares
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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
- three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with seams in blue cotton, and with repair stitching in white cotton
- Dimensions
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48 x 20 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 19 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 17 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.98
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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. 90 on p. 24 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 26, illus. vol. ii p. 24 fig. 90
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-petalled flowers and single dots are arranged regularly to form a grid of squares, inside each is either an eight-petalled rosette with a central dot or a cluster of four small squares which can be read as a larger square with a blue cross inside. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Two seams run at right angles to each other, using blue thread. Additional mending with white thread. The longer seam adds fabric that does not quite match, but has the same pattern as Cat. no. 87 [EA1990.95].
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