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Textile fragment with rosettes, 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
- three pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with open seams, with remains of a rolled hem, and with further stitching in white thread, possibly flax, and blue flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 38 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 18 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.129
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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. 121 on pp. 32-33 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 33 fig. 121
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. 10, illus. 42
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
Narrow bands of eight-petalled rosettes, clusters of nine very small squares, and dots, alternating with bands showing a continuous vine with separate leaves and tendrils. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Three pieces sewn together; the largest has a selvedge with remains of a rolled hem. Surface stitching as well as open seams. The design bands of the two smaller fragment are sewn to the large one at a right angle. The very small remains of a forth fragment appear on the edge opposite the selvedge.
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