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Textile fragment with curving vines, quatrefoil, and rosette
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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 brown, block-printed with resist, and mordant-dyed red; with a stitch in flax
- Dimensions
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14 x 9.5 cm (warp x weft)
16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.802
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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. 795 on p. 233 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 233 fig. 795
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. 51, pl.IXi
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 continuous design with curving vines from which flowers emerge. These are represented in side-view, and a quatrefoil and rosette are set between. The pattern is defined by white outlines against a red ground, with further details in deeper red or brown.
Selvedge, with a single stitch remaining. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye, but not with brown, which suggests that the mordant producing the latter was stamped first, and the brown details dyed, before a resist was applied and the red produced by immersion in a mordant bath.
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