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Textile fragment with linked chevrons and trefoils
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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 mordant-dyed red
- Dimensions
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35 x 8 cm max. (warp x weft)
24 / 18 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,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.291
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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. 282 on p. 84 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 84 fig. 282
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.VIId, illus. 47
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. 1,2,3,22, illus. 33,34,35,54
Irwin, John, and Margaret Hall, Indian Painted and Printed Fabrics, Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, 1 (Ahmedabad: Calico Museum of Textiles, 1971), cat. Pl.4c, illus. 11
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
Chevron design; as in Cat. no. 26 [EA1990.34], the dyed chevrons are emphasized with a trefoil tip. The design therefore is not read as ambiguously as when dyed and white parts complement each other, as in Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30].
Selvedge. The zigzag of the chevrons moves at a right angle to the selvedge. There are some additional traces of red dye on the reverse, suggesting that the fabric was immersed in a mordant solution.
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