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Textile fragment with linked scrolls
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 8th century - 9th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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54 x 39.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 10 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.259
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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. 250 on p. 72 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 72 fig. 250
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.2b, illus. 10
Location
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- currently out on loan
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A wide band of ornate linked scrolls is followed by a narrow band with similar, but smaller scrolls. A border next to the selvedge has linked arches with dots inside.
Selvedge. Remains of stitching. See comment to Cat. no. 251 [EA1990.260].
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