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Textile fragment with linked rosettes
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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
- two pieces of cotton, probably block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; joined with a flat seam in flax; remains of a cotton patch; with additional stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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31.5 x 22 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.282
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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. 273 on p. 82 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 82 fig. 273
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
Continuous pattern of red, six-petalled rosettes; the petals are linked. The background is white.
Two fragments are sewn together with a flat seam; there is additional stitching and remains of a cotton patch on the reverse. The pattern is equally precise on front and reverse. As there is no trace of red on the white background, it is likely that the mordant was stamped.
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