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Textile fragment with interlacing tendrils and quatrefoils
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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
- three pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; joined with flat seams in flax
- Dimensions
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39.5 x 30.5 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 13 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 18 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.749
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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. 742 on p. 218 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 218 fig. 742
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 of thick, interlacing tendrils, brown with white outlines on red ground, and linked with red quatrefoils which have heart-shaped leaves filled with white tendrils and a brown centre, again filled with tendrils and a small rosette. A second fragment has a red band with white rosettes, small squares and tendrils, and a brown band with a continuous vine as well as a row of small arches, both in white.
Three fragments are sewn together with flat seams; the third one is red and is inserted as a wedge. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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