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Textile fragment with bands of stylized plants, rosettes, and 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 mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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27 x 25.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
block (tendrils and flowers) 11 cm estimated (width)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.604
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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. 597 on p. 176 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 179, illus. vol. ii p. 176 fig. 597
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.XVIIIc, illus. 60
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. 28, illus. 44
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 band of stylized plants emerging from half-medallion-shaped mounds, similar to Cat. no. 596 [EA1990.603], white against a red ground, and flanked on either side by a band with small rosettes and tendrils. This pattern is white against a brown ground. Additional blocks are placed next to each other without necessarily matching in design. These are dyed red or brown and are filled with white tendrils and flowers.
Selvedge; the bands set at right angles to it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The width of the block filled with tendrils and flowers was 11 cm.; a similar juxtaposition of block designs is illustrated by Gittinger [1982: 44].
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