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Textile fragment with stepped squares, linked by Maltese crosses
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- probably 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with resist or mordant, and dyed red and brown; with a rolled hem in blue thread, possibly flax
- Dimensions
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20 x 15 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 17 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.481
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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. 481 on p. 142 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 142 fig. 481
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.VIIId, illus. 49
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. 53
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 54, 114
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 continuous pattern of stepped squares, each filled with red and with a small square at the centre, and linked by Maltese crosses, similar to Cat. no. 473 [EA1990.480]. The pattern is defined by white outlines against a brown background, but the design forms are also filled with brown or red.
A rolled hem with blue stitching. The reverse is slightly blurred. A similar fragment was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 56). This fragment is likely to be later, though, probably of 17th-century date: see Cat. no. 473 [EA1990.480].
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