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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed brown; joined with a seam in blue cotton
- Dimensions
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22 x 16 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.292
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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. 283 on p. 85 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 85, illus. vol. ii p. 85 fig. 283
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
Elaborate chevron design; the tip of each chevron has a trefoil added, as in Cat. no. 22 [EA1990.30]. The design is reversible and can be read as either red against white, or white against red.
A seam made with blue stitching. The direction of the design is set at right angles to each other in the two fragments. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse.
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