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Textile fragment with plants and vines
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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, resist-dyed blue, and mordant-dyed rose-pink
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 15.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › 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.
- EA1990.235
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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. 1135 on p. 343 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 343 fig. 1135
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.IXc,e, illus. 51
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. 43
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
Plant shapes encircled with beaded dots, as well as floral vines. The design is similar to Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129 and related fragments]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue. The inside of the plant shapes were formerly rose-coloured.
Only once the fragment had been removed from its cardboard sheet was it apparent that it had been mordant-dyed in addition to the indigo bath. The rose-coloured shade has disappeared from the front of the textile, but it is still visible on the back. -
Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Plant shapes encircled with beaded dots, as well as floral vines. The design is similar to Cat. no. 1122 [EA1990.1129 and related fragments]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is blue. The inside of the plant shapes were formerly rose-coloured.
Only once the fragment had been removed from its cardboard sheet was it apparent that it had been mordant-dyed in addition to the indigo bath. The rose-coloured shade has disappeared from the front of the textile, but it is still visible on the back.
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