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Textile fragment with leaves and dots
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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15 x 9.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
- Material index
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.923
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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. 917 on p. 272 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 272 fig. 917
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 44, 46, 101, 103.
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 band with four leaves arranged as a quatrefoil, with white outlines and filled with red against a blue ground, and surrounded by small flowers with four petals and tiny leaves. The quatrefoil alternates with a single red leaf, red with white outline. Next to the band is a a field of red blotches filled with white dots, against a blue ground.
Selvedge at right angles to the band. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. Two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim have a band with single leaves similar to the one here (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 32 & 36).
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