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Sampler with pattern examples
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 19th century (1801 - 1900)
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and purple
- Dimensions
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151 x 84.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 21 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.1196
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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. 1192 on p. 360 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 360 fig. 1192 & vol. i pl. 4
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. figs 51-52, illus. 64-65
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 complete sampler printed throughout with pattern examples of different blocks. The designs are of various sizes, either red, purple, or a combination of both.
The total number of blocks used is more than one hundred and fifty. The sampler is of 19th-century date, as is obvious from some of the designs. However, certain patterns are also present in fragments of much earlier date.
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