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Textile fragment with wavy lines, dots, and possibly stylized trees
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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 and brown
- Dimensions
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25.5 x 8 cm (warp x weft)
18 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 cm estimated (length)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.613
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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. 606 on p. 179 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 179 fig. 606
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
Two narrow, parallel bands; one with three rows of dots divided by two wavy lines, white against a red or brown ground. The second band has a row of stylized ?trees which are reversible and can be read as red or white.
Selvedge. The length of the block used was 12.5 cm. The pattern is slightly blurred on the reverse.
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