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Textile fragment with vines, palmettes, and tendrils
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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, applied with resist (probably by hand), and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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24.5 x 10 cm (length x width)
along length/width 30 / 26 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.
- EA1990.225
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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. 217 on p. 62 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 62 fig. 217
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), cat. Fig. 18
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
Vines and palmettes are set into curving bands set next to a large field with plant tendrils. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue. Light blue lines and dots appear in the curving bands.
Although blocks were used for parts of the design, it is likely that the large tendrils were drawn by hand.
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