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Textile fragment with flowers, stems, and leaves
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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 or mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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21.5 x 15.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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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.
- EA1990.591
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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. 584 on p. 172 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 172 fig. 584
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
A continuous design field with small, individual flowers supported by a thin stem and with two long leaves emerging from the base. The representation is in side-view. On two sides of the field are border bands; one with small, brown lozenges against a white ground, and the other with a row of three different flowers repeated in alternation, white against a brown ground. The flowers of the main field are white against a red background.
The selvedge is along the narrow band with lozenges. The fabric is very loosely woven and thin. It is not possible to detect the method of mordant application.
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