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Textile fragment with stylized trees
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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue; joined with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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31 x 21.5 cm max. (length x width)
additional fabric 19 x 4.5 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric, along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
additional fabric, along length/width 18 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.939
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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. 933 on p. 277 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 277 fig. 933
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
Two bands, one with two types of stylized trees alternating, one with a tall trunk and three branches, the other with two flowering branches emerging from the base, as in Cat. no. 929 [EA1990.935]. The trees are red with white details, against a blue ground. The second band possibly shows elongated leaves, blue on a red ground. However, the design is difficult to read. An additional pattern appears on a fragment that is sewn on, but this is unrecognizable.
A second fragment is sewn onto the main fabric; it has a selvedge at the seam and measures 19 cm. (warp) x 4.5 cm. (weft). The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The red or brown has very badly deteriorated.
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