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Textile fragment with 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 resist, and mordant-dyed red; joined with stitching in fine cotton and coarse flax
- Dimensions
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47 x 46 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 14 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.359
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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. 352 on p. 105 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 105 fig. 352
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 field with large, curving tendrils, each ending in a rosette with twelve petals. In addition, there are small leaves and flowers. The design is defined by white lines against a red ground.
Two pieces are sewn together, with some attention paid to a continuation of the pattern. There are two types of stitching; the fine thread is cotton, the coarse one is flax. The red is badly faded where it has been exposed to light. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.
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