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Textile fragment with squares and diamond-shapes
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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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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8.5 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.527
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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. 520 on p. 155 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 155 fig. 520
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. 49, 107
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
Two squares, one with four diamond shapes inside, the other with diagonal rows of linked, small diamonds. The squares are white against a red background; brown lines define the pattern and to some degree fill the inside.
Selvedge. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. An identical fragment was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 43). However, the Quseir fragment seems to be resist- rather than mordant-printed.
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