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Textile fragment with flowers and dots
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- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- probably mid - late 19th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed or hand-applied with mordant, dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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42 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 24 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1163
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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. 1159 on p. 351 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 351 fig. 1159
Bühler, Alfred, Ikat, Batik, Plangi: Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika, 3 vols (Basel: Pharos-Verlag H. Schwabe, 1972), I:172; III: Pls.290, 291.
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
Curving lines of red and white dots, and red and white flowers are set between these lines. The background is blue.
It is uncertain whether the design was stamped, or applied by hand. The fabric was loosely woven from fine thread, and dye saturation was equal on surface and reverse.
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