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Textile fragment with tendrils and linked ovals
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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 resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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40.5 x 14 cm (warp x weft)
21 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.984
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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. 978 on pp. 290-291 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 290 fig. 978
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
The main field has a pattern of tendrils surrounding linked ovals. The tendrils are white on a blue ground, while the ovals are white, blue, and red. In addition there are narrow bands with hearts, cartouches, and tendrils, in blue, white and red, and a red band with an abstract white and red design. The bands are followed by a floral design with small, white tendrils and red flowers on a blue ground.
Selvedge at right angles to the bands. For the red, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, but there is more for the blue.
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