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Textile fragment with spirals, dots, 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
- cotton, possibly block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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19 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.518
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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. 511 on p. 152 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 153-154, 161, & 163-165, illus. vol. ii p. 152 fig. 511
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. 39, illus. 71
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), cat. Fig. 37, illus. 51
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 wide band with small spirals, dots, and short lines; on either side of it is a narrower band with a row of four different versions of rosettes. Additional designs appear beyond these bands, but only one is recognizable: it shows a snowflake pattern, as in Cat. no. 35 [EA1990.43]. The designs are white on a dyed ground; the rosette bands are on a red background, the other two are on a brown background. See also Cat. no. 324 [EA1990.332].
The design is printed diagonally to the weave structure. It is very precisely printed, both on the surface and on the reverse.
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