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Textile fragment imitating bandhani, or tie-dye, with stars and inverted hooks
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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, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed brown; with a rolled hem in blue cotton, and repair stitching in white cotton
- Dimensions
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15 x 13 cm (warp x weft)
19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.391
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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. 363 on p. 108 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 108 fig. 363
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pls.VIId, VIIf, illus. 47,48
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 11, illus. 43
Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, Autumn 1982, Chicago: The Field Museum of Natural History, 1982, and New York: The Asia Society Gallery, 1982, Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles, Mattiebelle Gittinger, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Textile Museum, 1982), illus. 35
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
Bandhani imitation in band arrangements, with a six-pointed star and inverted hook motif. The pattern is as in Cat. no. 66 [EA1990.74], which is dyed with indigo. The design is white against a brown background.
Selvedge; a rolled hem sewn with blue thread is opposite it. Additional mending at right angles to the selvedge is done with white thread. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant that produced the dark brown was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.
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