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Textile fragment with wing-shaped flowers or vases, tendrils, and 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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red; one piece of cotton, block-printed with mordant and resist, and dyed red and blue; all pieces joined with stitching in coarse cotton and fine flax
- Dimensions
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36 x 18 cm (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 (dots), along length/width 14 / 14 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.
- EA1990.316
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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. 307 on p. 91 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 91 fig. 307
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
Ornate, wing-shaped flowers or vases, filled with tendrils and small rosettes; the space between them is entirely filled with tendrils and very small rosettes. The pattern is defined by white lines against a red background. An additional fragment has red dots against a blue background and remains of a border band.
Three pieces are sewn together: two have the identical, floral design, the third is different in design, thread-count, and dye technique. It is both mordant- and resist-dyed, including the use of indigo.
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