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Textile fragment with rosettes, lobed squares, and dots
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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
- four pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with seams, including run-and-fell, in white flax; with a rolled hem in blue cotton
- Dimensions
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28.5 x 22 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 21 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4, along length/width 21 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.125
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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. 117 on pp. 31-32 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 31 fig. 117
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.VIIIb, illus. 49
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. 30, illus. 62
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
Eight-petalled rosettes, lobed squares with blue centre, and single dots, as in Cat. no. 80 [EA1990.88]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue.
Stitching, with three seams and a rolled hem. While some of the sewing is quite fine, e.g. the rolled hem and the run-and-fell seam, other stitching is apparently done for crude mending. There are four fragments altogether.
[Additional thread counts are: (b) 18x24, (c)21x20, (d)21x18.]
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