Browse: 10610 objects
- Reference URL
Actions
Textile fragment with flowers and cross-hatching
-
Details
- Associated place
-
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 brown; with a rolled hem in flax, and a repair seam in cotton
- Dimensions
-
63 x 50.5 cm (warp x weft)
10 / 10 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
-
woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.894
-
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. 888 on p. 261 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 261 fig. 888
Bühler, Alfred, Ikat, Batik, Plangi: Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika, 3 vols (Basel: Pharos-Verlag H. Schwabe, 1972), I:171; III:Pl.281.
Location
-
- currently in research collection
Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.
Publications online
-
Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A large square covering the width of the textile, with a red border, then a wide frame of brown, linked quatrefoils, and at the centre four red rectangles with white cross-hatching and a rectangle with brown and white chevrons. The fabric is similar to Cat. no. 887 [EA1990.893].
Two selvedges. At one end is a rolled hem sewn with a flax thread. Down the centre is a mending seam, using cotton. 19th century.
© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum