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Textile fragment with rosettes, leaves, flowers, and bandhani, or tie-dye, imitation
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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 seams in black thread, possibly mercerized cotton
- Dimensions
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19 x 10.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 18 / 23 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.
- EA1990.162
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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. 154 on p. 42 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 42 fig. 154
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 48, pl.VIIf
Bérinstain, Valérie, ‘Early Indian Textiles Discovered in Egypt’, Marg, 40/3, (1989), cat. figs 5 & 8, illus. 20, 21
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
Ornate, swirling floral design with rosettes, and leaves and flowers emerging from vines; in addition there is a band with bandhani imitation, as in Cat. no. 70 [EA1990.78], and a narrow band of a running vine with separate leaves. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Two seams, sewn with black thread. The match of design is out of step.
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