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Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, S-shapes, and quatrefoils
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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; with stitching in blue and white flax
- Dimensions
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15 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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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.
- EA1990.158
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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. 150 on p. 41 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 56-57, illus. vol. ii p. 41 fig. 150
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. 19, illus. 51
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A band of diamonds with quatrefoils inside, and a half segment of the diamond shape to fill the sides of the band; a narrow border of running s-shapes is placed on either side. In addition there are quatrefoils identical to Cat. no. 126 [EA1990.134] and a fragmentary design which might be the lower part of an inscription, as in Cat. no. 207 [EA1990.215]. In general the resist defines the design against a blue background, but the internal diamond decoration is blue against white.
White and blue stitching.
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