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Textile fragment with grid of squares 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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown; with remains of a seam in white flax, and with additional stitching in blue and white flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 20.5 cm (warp x weft)
14 / 12 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.609
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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. 602 on pp. 177-178 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 177 fig. 602
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 a grid of squares, made by diagonal, brown lines of small, linked crosses, and with a red or brown rosette inside each square. The design is red and brown against a white ground, and one row of squares is filled with red. On either side of the band is a narrow, brown band with white rosettes. The entire design is similar to Cat. no. 564 [EA1990.571].
There is a selvedge, and remains of a seam along one side. Additional blue and white stitching is also present. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
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