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Textile fragment with rosettes, carnations, diamond-shapes, and 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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with an open seam in flax; with a running stitch hem in flax
- Dimensions
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33.5 x 32 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 15 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 14 / 17 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.
- EA1990.126
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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. 188 on p. 32 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 32-33, illus. vol. ii p. 32 fig. 118
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
Wide and narrow bands in alternation; the wide bands have a repeat of five motifs. These are a small eight-petalled blue rosette set in a white circle, a twelve-petalled carnation, a diamond-shape with an eight-petalled rosette at the centre, a thirteen-petalled rosette, and a cluster of nine small crosses. Half-rosettes along the sides have seven petals each. This is repeated four times. A narrow band is set between each wide one, with a running vine and separate leaves. A blue background.
An open seam and a hem, sewn with a running stitch.
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