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Textile fragment with squares, circles, and rosettes
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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 red and brown; joined with a repair seam in mercerized cotton
- Dimensions
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40.5 x 10 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 12 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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dyed › resist dyed,assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.733
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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. 726 on p. 214 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 214 fig. 726
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
Two large squares, each with a circle and a rosette inside, as well as a heart-shaped leaf in each corner, as in Cat. no. 723 [EA1990.730]. The background and circle are red, the square and rosette are brown. All outlines are in white. There also is a border band with a brown circle containing a red rosette, identical to Cat. no. 509 [EA1990.516].
A repair seam with brown stitching holds together two fragments of the same fabric. The reverse is heavily saturated with dye.
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