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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 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; with remains of flax sewing thread
- Dimensions
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27 x 21 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 10 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.260
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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. 251 on pp. 72-73 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 72, illus. vol. ii p. 72 fig. 251
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 in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ornate scrolls with tendrils added and an eight-petalled rosette at the centre of each scroll, identical to Cat. no. 250 [EA1990.259]. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
The Textile Museum has a fragment that is virtually identical, although the scrolls are reversed. The design is in the same style as a fragment illustrated in Irwin and Hall, although the specific pattern is different. There are remains of sewing thread. Design and technical details are identical to Cat. no. 250 [EA1990.259], and both fragments may have been part of the same fabric.
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