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Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, circles, and arches
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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, dyed red and brown, and applied with blue dye
- Dimensions
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20 x 14 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.917
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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. 911 on pp. 270-271 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 270 fig. 911
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 band of diamonds alternating with floral spandrels, each diamond filled with a blue Maltese cross. The pattern is white with brown outlines and blue details on a red ground. Narrow bands of circles with red dots inside are on either side. There is an additional band of small, pointed arches supported by stepped diamond shapes, white with brown outlines and red and blue details.
A finely printed fragment. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, not only for both red and brown, but for the blue as well. This suggests a surface application of the dye.
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