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Textile fragment with quatrefoils and cartouches
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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 stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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22.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9.5 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width)
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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.
- EA1990.715
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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. 708 on p. 209 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 209 fig. 708
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
Quatrefoils and cartouches are linked to form a continuous design. They are filled with floral patterns. Small discs connect the cartouches. The pattern is red, partly with brown outlines, and it almost completely fills the white ground.
At the edge one of the weaving systems is blue. The pattern is printed over the blue-and-white area; there are remains of stitching. The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.
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