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Textile fragment with rosettes and band with floral shapes
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Details
- Associated place
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- two pieces of cotton, joined with a seam in cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in white flax
- Dimensions
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27 x 12 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 1 (flowers) 12 x 16 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 2 (rosettes) 11 x 11 cm (warp x weft)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.121
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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. 113 on p. 30 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 57, illus. vol. ii p. 30 fig. 113
Barnes, Ruth, ‘Indian Trade Cloth in Egypt: The Newberry Collection’, Textiles in Trade: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium (Washington, D. C.: Textile Society of America, 1990), cat. 191, fig.7
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
Six-petalled rosettes made up from dots, with a dot at the centre; band with floral motifs: one daisy-shaped with twelve petals, the other a quatrefoil with four additional small leaves. The band has three rows of dots along both sides. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
A finely sewn seam holds together the fragments at their selvedge. The internal measurements can be refined and are: a) warp 12 cm., weft 16 cm.; b) warp 11 cm., weft 11 cm. The textile was sewn together prior to block-printing and dyeing. It is curious that the thread used for the seam is s-spun, which is not common in Indian cotton thread. Also published in Barnes 1990: 191, fig. 7.
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