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Textile fragment with circles and tabs
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 17th century (1601 - 1700)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed brown, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in white flax, blue cotton, and yellow silk, and a repair seam in white flax
- Dimensions
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46 x 46.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
- Object type index
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1085
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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. 1078 on p. 321 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 322, illus. vol. ii p. 321 fig. 1078 & vol. i pl. 11
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 design field with red circles that have beaded surrounds and are set into a grid of smaller, red circles. The small circles each have a rosette of five white dots. A red band with white rosettes is at both selvedges. At one end is a band with linked diamonds followed by five tabs, as in Cat. no. 1066 [EA1990.1073].
Two selvedges, with stitching along both, as well as a mending seam. The latter is sewn with a z-twist flax thread. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The tabs are identical to one found at the Nubian site Qasr Ibrim. Radiocarbon analysis has given a date of 1555 CE+/- 55.
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