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Textile fragment with rosettes in dotted circles, flower-heads, and dotted tendrils
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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 resist, and mordant-dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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18.5 x 33 cm max. (warp x weft)
13 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 12.5 cm estimated (length)
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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,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.567
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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. 560 on p. 166 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 215, illus. vol. ii p. 166 fig. 560
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. 43, illus. 75
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 band of rosettes in beaded circles, with a single row of beads along either side, as in Cat. no. 318 [EA1990.327]; a triangular design field with two large flower-heads, one smaller rosette with twelve petals, as well as thick, beaded tendrils alternating with rosettes. The latter design does not connect visually to the former. The band and beaded tendrils are red or brown against a white ground, while the flowers are white against a red ground.
Selvedge. The pattern of beaded tendrils and small rosettes was printed with a block that was 12.5 cm. long. The fragment shows more dye saturation on the reverse than on the surface.
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