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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
- 14th century (1301 - 1400)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with stitching in blue and white flax
- Dimensions
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21.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 28 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.
- EA1990.143
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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. 135 on p. 36 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 36 fig. 135 & vol. i pl. 6
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. 36, 89
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, fig. 20
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
An arrangement of squares with two different designs, one with a stylized ?flower, the other with a line and two dots on either side, as in Cat. no. 133 [EA1990.141]. Additional narrow band with a continuous scroll. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Some stitching. Identical fragments, including the continuous scroll motif, were found at Quseir al-Qadim. This fragment was given a C-14 date of 1335 CE+/-50. (See Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 7-8. See 1990.141 for additional finds that have the linked squares without the vine border.)
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