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Textile fragment with interlace based on script, leaves, 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, possibly dyed blue, and possibly applied with mordant
- Dimensions
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32 x 18.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
25 / 26 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.273
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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. 264 on p. 76 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 76, illus. vol. ii p. 76 fig. 264
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pls.XXVIb,d,e, illus. 71
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
A border of interlace based on script, but here without meaning. The upper part of the interlace ends in leaves and tendrils, as in Cat. no. 207 [EA1990.215]. Beyond the border there is fragmentary evidence of a floral pattern. The resist defines the design, the background was originally ?blue.
Selvedge. The fragment is heavily soiled, and the original colour can not be definitely established. It is possible that some mordant has been added.
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