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Textile fragment with S-shapes and crescents
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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 brown
- Dimensions
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8 / 6 threads/cm (thread count)
53 x 77 cm (warp x weft)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.901
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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. 895 on p. 263 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 263 fig. 895
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 large field with small, brown s-shapes on a light ground, surrounded by chevron borders and large, red crescent shapes at the end.
Two selvedges. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. 19th century.
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