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Textile fragment with linked squares, stylized flower-heads, and lines with 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
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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57 x 11 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 26 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.
- EA1990.141
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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. 133 on p. 36 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 3 & 36-37, illus. vol. ii p. 36 fig. 133
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. 16, illus. 48
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 35-39, 42, 44, 47, 87-94, 97, 101, 105, 118.
Eastwood, Gillian, ‘Textiles’, Donald S. Whitcomb and Janet H. Johnson, eds, Quseir al-Qadim 1980: Preliminary Report, American Research Center in Egypt Reports, 7 (Malibu: Undena, 1982), cat. 292
Location
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Lower ground floor | Room 5 | Textiles
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design of linked squares with two different patterns inside. One is probably a stylized flower-head, the other is a line with two dots on either side. The resist defines the design.
The pattern is a miniaturized version of the design of Cat. no. 138 [EA1990.146]. Identical fragments were found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 3, 5-9, 12-13, 15, 17a and b, 24, 31, & 38-39).
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