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Textile fragment with squares with quatrefoils, rectangles, and swirling tendrils
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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, applied with resist (probably by hand), probably block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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29 x 14 cm max. (warp x weft)
20 / 22 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.
- EA1990.196
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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. 188 on p. 53 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 53, illus. vol. ii p. 53 fig. 188
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
A border of alternating squares and rectangles, the square filled with an ornate quatrefoil, the rectangle with a pointed oval which has leaf terminals. In addition there is a large design of swirling tendrils with flower heads and a fragment of a ?circle. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Selvedge. The border band was probably block-printed, but the field of swirling plants may have had the resist applied by hand.
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